GenerativeComponents™ (GC) enables architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were virtually unthinkable before. Empowered by computational methods, the designers can direct their creativity to deliver inspired sustainable buildings that are freer in form and use innovative materials and assemblies. GC facilitates this by allowing the quick exploration of a broad range of "what-if" alternatives for even the most complex buildings.

Improved Data Quality and Functionality The Survey Department of Sri Lanka is a national surveying and mapping organization charged with providing high quality land information products and services. ... As part of a very large digital terrain model (DTM) project, the Survey Department used Bentley Map and MicroStation to deliver improved data quality and functionality for the City of Jaffna GIS.

Bentley is fully committed to the objectives of buildingSMART and is actively involved
in several regional chapters as well as IFC-related projects and initiatives. Some examples
include the adoption of IFC-based BIM technology by the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) AECOO-QTO test bed
and Construction Operations Building information exchange (COBie) challenge projects.

The commercial construction industry has been slow to adopt new technologies, often driven more by fear of being left
behind than an understanding of the benefi ts. But change is inevitable, and the pace of change is only going to increase.
How has technology changed the way we work, and where do we go from here?

This white paper offers a high-level overview of where we’ve been, where things stand today, and where we may be
headed with technologies on the horizon.

The London 2012 construction programme posed significant challenges, including the management of engineering information generated by hundreds of contractors. To address this challenge, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s (ODA’s) Delivery Partner (DP) implemented an engineering content management and collaboration system, and deployed
a suite of integrated design tools for use by consultants and contractors.
This case study explores how
the engineering technology was implemented; the problems that arose with adoption of the technology, standards and procedures; how these problems were resolved; and some
of the innovations and best practices that contributed to successes in engineering information management.

With no standard data format or system for storing, accessing, and maintaining information on 52 power plants, nearly 900 grid stations, and 430,000 power lines, finding trustworthy engineering content was a time-consuming challenge for the staff at the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). “They spent days looking for and vetting information, which hurt productivity, increased costs, and impaired our emergency preparedness, stated Abdulaziz Al-Hamed, Engineering Applications Group Leader at SEC. ”So we made it a strategic priority to manage our kingdom-wide physical assets more effectively – which required implementing a robust engineering content management system that enables access and integrity.

Decisions made in your organization need to be based on information that
is 100 percent trustworthy. These days, creating information is easy – in
structured and unstructured formats. Having visibility to accurate information
when your business users need it is the challenge. Bentley’s AssetWise
platform for asset lifecycle information management (ALIM) provides
applications to organizations that ensure their information assets are governed,
secure, controlled and can be trusted – delivering relevant information, in
context, when and where it is needed.

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) owns, manages, and maintains a state highway system that carries 86 million vehicle miles per day. Its Visual Engineering Resource Group (VERG) produces 3D visualizations that help get buy-in on highway improvement projects through strategic communication with stakeholders and the public. For the $23.2 million State Route (SR) 20 Sharpes Corner intersection, visualizations created using MicroStation expedited the selection of the best design for reducing traffic congestion and the chance of collisions.

The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City ensures sustainable development and enhances the quality of life for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Since its inception in 1962, the Municipality has implemented projects aimed at establishing modern infrastructure for the city. The Municipality routinely commissions and manages projects where large volumes

In support of sustainable economic growth and the associated spike in power demand, India is phasing out old, inefficient power stations in favor of more advanced, environmentally friendly plants. The US $1.5 billion supercritical thermal power plant under construction in Nagpur, Maharashtra, will replace
existing facilities with a high-efficiency, low-emission 3x660 megawatt (MW) coal-fired plant.

LENC - Laboratório de Engenharia e Consultoria Ltda. based in São Paulo, Brazil, was the lead consulting firm on the Marginal Tietê road redesign project, a US$689 million project commissioned by the São Paulo State Government and the City of São Paulo. The project’s purpose was to organize traffic crossings, and prioritize and structure passenger and payload traffic in the São Paulo metropolitan region. Marginal Tietê is one of the most important traffic routes located in São Paulo. It connects the west, north, and east regions of the city and links the Lapa region to the Penha region. Using PowerCivil for Brazil, LENC increased productivity in the analysis of horizontal and vertical alignments and increased design efficiency.

ArcelorMittal Mines Canada is one of the leading producers of iron ore products in North America. The company is comprised of ArcelorMittal Mining Canada G.P. (mine site and pellet plant) and ArcelorMittal Infrastructure Canada G.P. (rail road and port site). The open pit mine and crusher/concentrator facility is capable of producing 18 million metric tons of iron ore concentrates annually at Mont Wright in northern Québec. The company also operates a pellet plant with an annual production capacity of some 9 million metric tons of iron ore pellets at Port-Cartier, Québec.

Bentley worked with Eastman to deliver a tailored solution using ProjectWise that met all of the company’s needs, facilitating enhanced collaboration across the Eastman enterprise, and returned savings in excess of the cost of implementation due to the efficiency improvements.

A Bentley White Paper
Benoit Fredericque, Product Manager 3D City GIS Products
Alain Lapierre, Senior Director, Civil and Geospatial Frameworks
Introduction
Our mission at Bentley has always focused on helping our users improve the world’s
infrastructure. We do this by providing software solutions, products, and services that
improve the productivity and quality of the work performed by architects, engineers,
constructors, and geospatial professionals through the design-build-operate lifecycle
of infrastructure.
Infrastructure – everything from roads, bridges, buildings, and factories to water,
electric, gas and communications networks – provides the basic facilities, services, and
installations for a society to function. Creating a sustainable world has become a clear
priority for the world’s communities as well as for Bentley. Bentley shares its view on
how infrastructure sustains our society, the environment, and the professions in the
white paper “Sustaining Infrastructure,” available here. This paper shows examples
of the creativity and innovative work of Bentley users that resulted in the successful
completion of infrastructure projects that have contributed to this objective. Given that
urbanization is accelerating worldwide, the battleground for sustaining infrastructure
will be at the local government level. In response to this trend, this paper focuses on
how the use of 3D city geospatial information systems can assist in sustaining infrastructure
at the local level.
The Case for a 3D City Geospatial

Advantage BIM: Bentley’s Structural Modeler Saved the Firm Time, Improved Workflows in Retractable Roof Design. A four-year improvement program at Wimbledon’s All-England Club was staged around the annual tennis tournament, with London-based Capita Symonds as the main structural consultant and Edge Structures, a structural engineering design practice based in London and Leeds, coordinating design among multiple contractors. Edge Structures used Bentley’s building information modeling (BIM) software, including Bentley’s Structural Modeler, to design the facility improvements
for a new retractable roof.

Enogex LLC, an OGE Energy Corp. company providing natural gas gathering, processing, transportation, and storage in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, needed to construct compressor stations more quickly and at less cost in order to stay competitive. The company leveraged Bentley solutions to create a robust and scalable standardized design package that reduced billable design hours and delivery time.

Among the thousands of structures, systems, and components (SSC) that comprise
a nuclear power plant, the component class relied upon most for protection, control,
monitoring, and supervision is instrumentation and control (I&C) components and
systems. A typical unit has approximately 10,000 sensors and detectors and 3,000
miles of instrumentation cables. In total, the mass of I&C components averages
approximately one thousand tons. Next to buildings and structures, I&C represents
the heaviest and most extensive infrastructure in any plant.

Nuclear power plants in the United States have continued to improve their performance
steadily over the past decade. In 2007, according to industry data, these plants achieved
a record-low production cost of 1.68 cents per kilowatt hour and a record-high level
of electricity production. This is a result of many high-performing nuclear fleets that
have evolved since deregulation in 1997. Nuclear electricity generation is also expected
to significantly offset increased carbon dioxide emissions and long-term climate
change concerns.

Designing even a moderately sized process plant is a complex endeavor that can involve dozens of firms and generate millions of documents. Managing the design, construction, handover, and ramp-up to minimize cost, confusion, and the time to plant profitability requires an improved way of tracking all of this information. ISO 15926 is a globally recognized standard for data integration that improves the interoperability of design applications. This leads to better visibility and control for owners and operators that result in faster project completion and more efficient plant operations.

AmerenUE’s Callaway Nuclear Plant has achieved one of
the best safety and performance records of any nuclear
facility since it began operating in 1984. Built at a cost of
US$3 billion, the plant is approximately 100 miles west of
St. Louis, Mo. It produces more than 1,200 megawatts of
electricity — sufficient to power 750,000 households —
using a Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor
and an Alstom turbine-generator.

Techniques to overlay computer aided designs (CAD) produced by multiple designers to achieve coordination are well established in the building industry, but are less common in general civil engineering and infrastructure. An integrated CAD model was used to manage the multi-disciplinary, multi-designer London 2012 project ensuring a coordinated design was achieved.

In business, one of the many keys to success is effective control over expenses, no matter how big or small
the organization. One area that often gets overlooked in AEC business operations is the cost of printing
large format technical documents. Because large format technical documents are such a critical part of an
AEC firm’s operations, the question becomes; should you print your large format documents in-house or
outsource the printing of them?

Keeping the Hallandsås Tunnel Project on Track The construction of a railway tunnel through the Hallandsås ridge in southern Sweden has a long history, but the end is in sight with the start of traffic services scheduled for late 2015. To help meet the demanding project schedule and the challenges of performing tunnel excavation and detailed engineering design in parallel, Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration, chose to advance its use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices with the help of Sweco Infrastructure AB. Sweco was given the responsibility for all BIM related strategy and coordination of the Hallandsås project including helping the project team implement effective BIM processes to optimize production, develop integrated 3D models through a collaborative design process, and use that information throughout the project lifecycle. The successful BIM implementation on this project, using Bentley(reg) ProjectWise(reg), MicroStation(reg), InRoads(reg), Bentley Rail Track, and Bentley Navigator, has resulted in innovative methods, reusable resources, a reduction in costs, and productivity improvements that help keep the project on schedule.

In recent years, new intelligent substation design technology has been introduced to modernize substation design and enable a significant increase in engineering efficiency. This white paper presents the results of an extensive industry survey that explores and ultimately confirms the benefits of intelligent substation design.

In the second half of the 20th century, Western nations’ easy access to cheap and
abundant energy, coupled with their ability to generate, transmit, and broadly distribute
electricity, brought far-reaching prosperity. However, the old paradigm can’t sustain
energy delivery from fossil fuels while also meeting mandates for a cleaner, safer, and
more sustainable world.

Over the years, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), the largest electricity utility in Malaysia, implemented a number of asset performance enhancement initiatives such as reliability centered maintenance, generation plant management, enterprise resource management, and predictive maintenance. However, vital information from these initiatives was contained in multiple databases or paper records, leading to lapses and unexpected failures. TNB launched a USD 2.8 million program to centralize condition-based information for any given asset.

Small City Reaps Big Returns Napier City Council governs the seaport city of Napier, located on Hawke’s Bay on the eastern coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The Council initiated the NZD 100,000 WorkIT II project to upgrade the city’s water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure asset management systems. WorkIT II consolidated systems to create a single, authoritative data source for multiple software products. Bentley solutions provided the framework for surveying, CAD, GIS, and asset management data. Standardizing on a common technology platform improved work and data flow throughout the asset lifecycle while maintaining data accuracy. Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription (ELS) for Municipalities gave the Council access to the comprehensive product portfolio and training resources. This project, the first of three phases, generated annual savings of NZD 75,000 on IT costs and staff resources

For Southern Company’s capital projects, one of the largest challenges is the handover of engineering information to operations and maintenance. The goal of this USD 3 million project was to create a true cradle-to-grave asset lifecycle information management tool that allows information to flow across disciplines, departments, and organizations from an asset’s inception in conceptual design through operations and eventual decommissioning

PG&E estimates total annual savings to be USD
5.7 million across the approximately 120
substation projects completed each year
The Smart Grid Tsunami
Like so many utilities with aging infrastructure, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
needed to modernize its substations and boost service reliability. “As we began a massive,
multi-year smart-grid project to address these issues, we knew it would be difficult for our
substation design team to keep up with the volume of design projects using our traditional,
manual design process,” explained Alexander Liang, senior design engineer at PG&E. “With
over 1,000 substations in our electric system, we needed to work faster and smarter –
so we turned to Bentley Systems for help.” A long-term Bentley customer and one of the
United States’ largest electric and gas utilities, PG&E is based in San Francisco, California,
and employs over 22,000 employees. The company provides natural gas and electric service
to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern
and central California.

To remedy the need for accurate, real-time information about their communication networks, in an industry where asset management standards have been typically low, and infrastructure data is often poorly organized and obsolete, Precision Contracting Services developed the FiberTrak™ software system based on Bentley’s Communication products.

This whitepaper outlines realistic and practical options for PDS users to continue gaining value from their PDS systems, while gradually transitioning to the future use of Bentley’s latest OpenPlant applications. It also provides information about future developments that will help users assess the timing of future investments.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. (NSENGI), a unit of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. of Tokyo, Japan, participated in the 15-company joint venture (JV) that designed and built Tokyo International Airport’s new D Runway. Located in the Bay of Tokyo, the USD 6 billion offshore runway is comprised of a 1,100-meter pier section and a 2,020-meter reclaimed section. NSENGI completed detailed design of the jacket-supported pier structure in just 18 months. This is the first application of a jacket structure for an offshore airport runway, and it could not have been designed in this timeframe without the use of Bentley’s SACS software to perform fatigue analysis of the structure under the most severe of conditions. The pier’s 100-year service life is 70-80 years longer than the standard for offshore structures. Expanding

Revenue for Government Services Bentley Channel Partner Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos (iSP) is a leading provider of geospatial information systems (GIS) services to local, state, and federal governments as well as the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico. The City of Cancún retained iSP to modernize its cadastral information systems and increase property tax collection revenue. By

The R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario, N.Y., is one of
five nuclear plants within the Constellation Energy Nuclear
Energy Group. Commissioned in 1970, it is one of the oldest
U.S. nuclear plants still in operation. As Constellation Energy
began aligning business processes and integrating information
systems across its fleet, Ginna became the first plant to
implement a centralized electronic Performance Improvement
Center (ePIC) to replace its existing paper-based corrective
action program.

Graphisoft EcoDesigner is an integrated, easy–to-use energy evaluation tool for architects. EcoDesigner enables architects to control the energy consumption of their buildings, and sets new standards in sustainable design, making ArchiCAD the leading software solution for contemporary architectural demands. With EcoDesigner, architects will have easy access to much needed energy information concerning their project in the early design phase, as opposed to relying on outside professionals to analyze the buildings when the design is well advanced and decisions are irreversible.

Built in 1852, King’s Cross railway station is one of the main transportation hubs in London. As with the rest of the United Kingdom’s rail network infrastructure, the station has struggled in recent years to manage not only increasing ridership but also providing the space and amenities commuters expect.
For a project of this size and complexity, architects John McAslan + Partners needed equally sophisticated models and modeling tools. MicroStation’s federated model structure allowed the large design team to easily and rapidly share common files between multiple disciplines. Using Bentley tools they were able to merge and organize numerous elements of the project including heritage and conservation work on current structures, as well as existing services and transportation infrastructure.

For AG5, design software is a means to an end: creating inspiring and sensory-stimulating spaces that customers love. "We employ BIM (building information modeling) at an expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work," stated Sheldon. "And we do this using Bentley's AECOsim Building Designer."

The project required ADG Drones Realisations (ADG ) to capture photos of the Roman aqueduct, Aqueduc de Roquefavour, in Ventabren, France, that could be used to generate a 3D reality model to inspect and assess the structural integrity of the national heritage site. Given the difficult access to the site and level of analysis necessary, ADG needed high resolution, aerial photographs and accurate reality modeling software to produce a precise textural mesh revealing the current condition of the aqueduct

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Visual Engineering Resource Group (VERG) uses Bentley’s 3D immersive visualization software, LumenRT, to create images, videos, and real-time presentations for use in such diverse applications as design reviews, courtroom legal support, and cultural resource documentation. VERG has gained national recognition for producing visual communications that explain complicated stories to a mass audience in a compelling and engaging way.

Support for Massive Point-cloud Files i-TEN Associates is a Portland, Oregon-based provider of geospatial information systems (GIS), photogrammetry, computer-aided design (CAD), and computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) services. Using unfiltered point-cloud data, i-TEN can create 3D models and extraordinary visualizations that can be shared and viewed by anyone. Producing these models in the traditional way, through surveying and modeling, however, was expensive and time consuming. Laser scanning and the resulting point cloud offered i-TEN a way to produce fast, low-cost models and compelling visualizations with maximum quality, and impeccable accuracy. To achieve this, i-TEN needed software that could efficiently manipulate and integrate point clouds and 3D geometry.

Engineering and Construction activities are collaborative in essence. Yet, the highly fragmented nature of the construction industry and the proliferation of different and often incompatible software applications and processes can hamper efficient information flow, resulting in poor communication, unnecessary delays, and increased project costs. During this webcast, discover how leading engineering firms, contractors and owners/operators have overcome these challenges and put projects on the fast track using AutoVue Enterprise Visualization solutions.

“DoubleCAD™ XT is an AutoCAD LT work-alike. But free. Great DWG and SKP compatibility. Plus all the power of professional 2D CAD. With so many new features, you might even think DoubleCAD™ XT is an upgrade for AutoCAD LT®.”

Need an extra AutoCAD LT® seat for drafting & detailing?

DoubleCAD™ XT is an AutoCAD LT work-alike. But free.

DoubleCAD™ XT is a great companion with AutoCAD® -- and if you are a Google™ SketchUp™ user wanting to go from concept-to-construction drawings -- or have an older copy of AutoCAD LT® that can't read the latest AutoCAD® files -- DoubleCAD™ XT is an invaluable companion to SketchUp™ and AutoCAD LT®, too.

With so many new, innovative features, you might even think DoubleCAD™ XT is an upgrade for AutoCAD LT®:

Maryland General Hospital (MGH) in Baltimore, Maryland is best known for its reputation as a top-notch, university-affiliated teaching hospital. That reputation will most certainly grow with the completion of the $57 million, five-story Central Care Expansion project that adds much-needed space, modern facilities and some of the industry’s most advanced healthcare equipment.

Developing a 4D Construction Visualization and Simulation System Based on MicroStation Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. specializes in the construction of high-quality, low-cost power plants that are both reliable and economical to operate. “Every project is large and complex, involving huge numbers of workers, detailed requirements, and materials,” explained Masatoshi Takada, senior engineer at Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy. “And because our work is downstream from design, we face hidden and extreme risks from less-than-optimal upstream work. At the same time, we need to manage all aspects of a project – piping, mechanical, electrical and so on across all project phases – and do so in a way that meets expected time, cost, and quality targets.” This

The City of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, retained Sotepa Ltda. as consulting engineer on the 2050 Blumenau Project for Urban Infrastructure.
Sotepa took 25 Percent Less Time for Design of Six-lane Connector Road Using Bentley’s Powerful Civil Software

In building design, visualizing a form in the earliest stages enhances a designer’s ability to communicate ideas; and the ability to analyze and evaluate these forms yields an advantage in predicting and optimizing the real-world performance of the built project. These attributes form a core value of the building information modeling (BIM) process, for which Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software is purpose-built to support.

Achieving Business Growth in Emerging Markets GEA Group, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, is one of the largest system providers for food and energy processes. With EUR 5.7 billion revenue in 2012 and 24,500 employees worldwide, it operates internationally, providing businesses with world-class process technology and components for even the most demanding production processes.

This 200-page yearbook highlights the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure and the quality of life for us all. It features descriptions and color images of the more than 250 project nominations recognized, 17 winners honored in the 2009 Be Inspired Awards competition, and four recipients of Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards. In addition, it provides links to special Be Connected online seminars presented by Be Inspired Award winners and finalists. Each seminar offers insight into the design innovations and best practices employed to achieve the outstanding results that placed these projects among the top choices of the Be Inspired Awards judges.

The I-10 Mobile River Bridge spans the Mobile River near downtown Mobile, Alabama, with a minimum vertical clearance height of 215 feet, making it the second highest clearance bridge in the United States. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) used Bentley’s visualization and reality modeling software, LumenRT, to deliver real-time, immersive visualizations for the crucial public involvement meetings.

BIMStorm is allows all levels of users to interact in real time with web based BIM and Cloud Computing. Join us in revolutionizing the industry. Open standards drives the links to other applications and links BIM to GIS.

Scanning drawings to digital raster form is essential to realize any open archive benefits. The justification for scanning to a raster image can be easily made when looking at the value of managing the documents, savings in facilities costs, and improved document accessibility throughout the organization. These costs are often not accounted for and can be staggering.

Upgrading Rail Transport in New South Wales
The South West Rail Link (SWRL) is a New South Wales (NSW) Government initiative designed to address reliability issues and a projected increase in ridership on the metropolitan rail network in Sydney, Australia. The AUD 2.1 billion project includes a major upgrade of Glenfield Station and bus/rail interchange (Phase 1), and a new 11.4 kilometer twin-track passenger rail line from Glenfield to Leppington

ACCA is the Italian leader in the Building Industry Software.
Bill of Quantities, Estimates, Accounting, structural analysis, geotechnical engineering, safety, energy saving, architectural design, acoustics, company and office management.
Covering an unparalleled range of solutions and distributing the programs which are the standard for the industry, ACCA is today a reference point in the sector, the most reliable specialist for the building professionals, the most suitable answer to the building professional's needs and requirements.
Founded in 1989, ACCA grew rapidly thanks to its products, well-known for their usability and their strongly innovative inspiration.
The thorough knowledge of the building industry, the creative approach, the practical attitude, the capability to be ahead of competitor's time.
A Typical Italian Miracle made out of expertise, experience, passion.
Primus-DCF is a free and complete software that allows Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and building contractors to easily create bills of quantities and estimates for the building industry through a very user-friendly interface. Your monitor becomes your desktop where you will be able to open Price Books, Price Lists, Estimates and Bills of Quantities, consult them, insert, modify or copy parts of data from a source document to a destination document, and easily modify data with simple Drag&Drop operations. Thanks to the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) technology, the document that you see while editing is exactly the same document you will get printed on paper. You can have different documents on your monitor and operate on any of them wherever you want by simply pointing your mouse cursor on the part you want to modify allowing you to work in a more direct and intuitive way. Furthermore, the DCF (Document Computation Format) format can be modified for free thanks to Primus. This revolutionary format allows you to easily transmit Bills of Quantities and Estimate documents: send, receive, publish on the Internet, copy to hard disk (CD, USB Memory, floppy disk, etc). All the information in your document will be contained in one unique compressed file that can be also easily exported and edited in Word and Excel. No large sized database structures but just one small sized easy to manage compressed file! With Primus-DCF you can also take-off measurements directly from your AutoCAD drawing file with a very powerful feature that recognizes the drawing entities and automatically sends the measurements to the associated Price List Item in PriMus-DCF. This additional feature allows you constantly keep under control the Bill of Quantities and Estimate’s budget as the design phase progresses, updating all data in realtime!

After rolling out eB Information Manager (now AssetWise ECM) to the organization, AmerenUE received feedback from its engineers that more integration with their in-house work management system was required. AmerenUE leveraged the versatility of AssetWise ECM and familiarity with its own work management system to create a new front-end application known as the Ameren Document Viewer.

HDR was awarded the contract to design and build the new New York Bridge – which will replace the traffic-jammed Tappan Zee Bridge – on an aggressive schedule. In addition to crossing the Hudson River at one of its widest points, the design included twin tower cable-stayed main spans with 1,200-foot center spans, four traffic lanes, shoulders and emergency lanes, electronic tolling facilities, a shared-use path, and space for future mass transit. The owners also required an as-designed model and a complete, as-constructed database of assets derived from and tied to a 3D model

The construction, architecture and engineering markets have been at the epicenter of the recent global economic recession. Following a period of almost irrational growth and investment in real estate development – both residential and commercial – the industry faces numerous challenges following the burst of the housing bubble. As a result the sector has been forced to reevaluate and reengineer its traditional business models to drive increased efficiencies in operations and improvements in bottom line performance. What is evident is that effective management of engineering and construction organizations today requires standardized business process and integrated technology systems that improve project management and drive profitability.

ArcelorMittal USA formed a core team of members from 12 operating facilities who were trained by Bentley consultants in reliability principles, methodologies, and technology and then deployed as onsite team leaders to launch its World Class Equipment Reliability (WCER) initiative. To effectively implement and manage the scope of the WCER program, ArcelorMittal installed Bentley’s AssetWise Performance Management (APM) software with a custom interface to AssetPoint’s Tabware computerized maintenance management system.

Bentley software helped Mortenson to minimize ground-disturbing activities by reducing each turbine footprint by 40 percent and helped the project team improve communication among project stakeholders, which led to a stronger, more collaborative relationship with the BLM and, in turn, will set the stage for future work Mortenson performs on BLM land.

Designing and Constructing Three Projects Concurrently When the city of Brisbane, Australia, and its suburbs needed to reduce heavy congestion going to, from and around Brisbane Airport, Brisbane City Council initiated development of a massive infrastructure project to solve the problem. The council’s goal was to reduce traffic congestion by 45 percent,

The ArcelorMittal USA Flat Roll Operations is comprised of 12 operating facilities employing over 17,000 people. The World Class Equipment Reliability (WCER) team at the ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor hot strip mill has achieved very dramatic results in a one-year period. Total savings in the first year were USD 2,076,900. Other positive benefits

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House Ber, Midrand- the practical dream home
Gone are the days where a house is designed with the intention to remove its occupants from the outdoor environment, and House Ber is an exquisite example of this. Designed by Werner van der Meulen of Nico van der Meulen Architects, the house’s striking rectangular structure makes the house stand out from every angle.
Between the use of transparent glass, a koi pond and pool surrounding the living room area, and the porch forming part of the interior-this masterpiece invites the serenity of the outdoor environment. Not only does the open plan of the entire house make it a practical and comfortable space to live in, but it also creates unity between all its different spaces, as each room subtly transforms into another as occupants move through it.
The cantilevered granite clad wall staircase is elegantly secured between the wall on one side, and glass support on the other. There are handrails on both sides for added support, with the one handrail resting on the glass support structure, and the other neatly cut into the wall. The steps are made from slabs of granite, and steel sheets were used as the dividers between the steps. These steel sheets are barely visible, making the steps appear as though they are floating in the air- this creates an aesthetically pleasing illusion.
The steel grating balcony of the main bathroom is located in the north-east corner of the house, enabling it to also protect the kitchen from too much morning sun. The kitchen itself was cleverly designed to be as stylish as the rest of the house, yet simple enough to work in.
A bridge that crosses over the living room connects the pyjama lounge and children’s bedrooms to the main suite. The bathroom and bedroom are spacious, yet cosy-the latter being a crucial component in order to maintain the sense of privacy that these rooms should have, in any house.
As inviting and open as the home is, security was not compromised-neither was originality. Instead of conventional burglar bars, steel bars were placed in a unique uninformed fashion all around the house.
Innovation and originality were the driving concepts behind the design of House Ber, however functionality was never overlooked. As a result, it is impressive enough to be the ultimate dream home, yet practical enough to also be a liveable home.
Phia van der Meulen, lead designer of M Square Lifestyle Design used the random patterns evident on the steel facade as inspiration for the interior design. Illuminated ceilings add to the feeling of transparency, whilst the materials used were chosen to complement the contemporary feel.

AutoDWG DWG to Image Converter featured with batch converting, easy to use wizard, converting many DWG and DXF files to JPG (JPEG), TIF (TIFF), GIF, PNG, BMP in one go. AutoCAD not required.Pro version Supports command line. SHX,Xref and Line Width supported; You may set the Image Size, Output Color (True Colors,Gray and Black-White), Background Color; You may convert model space, all layouts, all paperspace, or last active layout to Image file; You can adjust the size of output pages with its layout automatically; Version 3.3 supports AutoCAD R2.5 to R2009 drawings.

Rebuilding Post-war Infrastructure In the aftermath of a devastating civil war, the Republic of Angola faced the daunting task of rebuilding its infrastructure. As part of this effort, Armando Rito Engenharia SA Lisbon, Portugal, was retained by the Road Institute of Angola on behalf of the Ministry of Public Works to design the 4th of April Bridge over the Catumbela River. The EUR 26 million cable-stayed bridge replaced an antiquated one-way bridge, which turned a two-hour-or-more journey between the cities of Benguela and Lobito into a 30-minute drive.

Motivated by a series of industrial incidents, coupled with the publication of new U.K. standards on plant aging, integrity, and asset management, ScottishPower, a division of Iberdrola, was determined to implement a new asset management and process safety framework—one that would enable it to achieve certification on the British Standards Institute’s Publicly Available Specification for the optimized management of physical assets (PAS 55)

SolidStructural is designed as a convenient tool for Steel Detailing, Structural Design and Fabrication. In the family of 3D Steel integrated packages (such as SDS/2 or Tekla Xsteel) SolidStructural is the lowest price software, affordable for small companies or individuals. At the same time often the productivity and representation of drawings produced by SolidStructural is better. SolidStructural short learning curve and friendly interface lets new users become productive in a very short term. The users of this program generate precise 3D model and produce automatically the variety of structural and miscellaneous steel drawings: anchor bolt plans and details, erection plans, plan and elevation views, Shop Drawings of piece details and stair plans and elevations. Reports in SolidStructural (Cutting List, Steel Summary, plates, angles, Steel Order and others) are always up to date. SolidStructural is distributed with Acad Officer - effective set of AutoCAD add-ons. System Requirements: AutoCAD 2000 or higher + MS Access 2000 or higher.
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The objective of this study is to identify and estimate the efficiency losses
in the U.S. capital facilities industry resulting from inadequate
interoperability. This study includes design, engineering, facilities
management, and business processes software systems and redundant
paper records management across all facility life-cycle phases. The
capital facilities industry is changing with the introduction of information
technology tools that have the potential to revolutionize the industry and
streamline historically fragmented operations. These tools include
computer-aided drafting technologies, 3-D modeling technologies, and a
host of Internet- and standards-based design and project-collaboration
technologies

Based in Sydney, Australia, Building Studio uses Bentley software to design and deliver complex buildings for corporate, institutional, and government clients. The company is well known for producing creative, rigorously tested solutions that meet each client’s unique needs and aspirations. To date, the company’s 20 employees have used AECOsim Building Designer – and, more recently, ProjectWise – to design, document, and build more than 90,000 square meters of buildings.

Featured By: Dominic Gallello
Today, more and more construction projects are ironing out many potential problems before the first shovel of dirt is actually moved. This is done through 5D virtual construction technology, which uses a model-based approach for providing better data on projects to increase predictability, reduce risk and, finally, reduce the number of lawyers that are required after the project is completed to determine who owes what to whom.

Learn about advanced concepts in daylight simulation using the Exposure feature in Autodesk 3ds Max Design. This white paper is for architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists who are familiar with daylight simulation and want to take it to the next level.

Accelerating Projects with Intelligent Design iSAT Network Engineers is a fast-growing engineering/ procurement/construction company that provides turnkey solutions for utility transmission and distribution as well as high-power testing labs. Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand retained iSAT to develop a 132-kilovolt substation with a total capacity of 80 million volt-amperes in the capital city of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. iSAT employed a new approach for the INR 114.4 million project that unified physical, electrical, and structural substation design with Bentley’s integrated applications. The Bentley substation solution enabled the use of intelligent models that increased cross-discipline collaboration, reduced revisions by 60 percent, improved the quality of cost estimates, and accelerated the overall design process by 40 percent.

This white paper walks the reader through the various principles and workflows for carrying
out an accurate daylight analysis in Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009 software with the Exposure™ technology feature. The reader will learn some of the basic principles of daylight simulation and lighting analysis as well as how to build a scene, pick adequate material properties, and set up the render settings for a physically accurate simulation.

Fronting Oxford Street in London's elegant Mayfair district, where high-end shops mingle with exclusive residences and commercial buildings, Park House was developed to deliver an entire city block of prime, mixed-use space without overpowering its neighbors. Robin Partington & Partners (RPP) designed the GBP 135 million building with 8,140 square meters of retail space at basement, ground, and first-floor levels on Oxford Street; 15,140 square meters of Grade A office space on seven floors with a prestigious west-end address on Park Street; and 5,430 square meters of residential space for 39 private flats with a discrete east-end entrance on North Row. The building's curvilinear, fully glazed facade presented the technical challenge of bending glass to its limit. RPP used Bentley's GenerativeComponents to design a cladding system with the optimal number of glass panels, and an innovative solution for joining the siding and roofing.

Applying Proven Technology Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. is part of the Hamon Group, an international engineering and contracting company that is a leader in the specialized markets for cooling systems, process heat exchangers, air quality systems, chimneys, and heat recovery steam generators and waste heat boilers. Xinjiang Jinhui Zhaofeng Energy Co. Ltd. retained Hamon to design the CNY 45 million steel structure for the air-cooling island at the CNY 3 billion Xinjiang Jinhui Power Plant located in the Baicheng Heavy Chemical Industrial Park in Baicheng County, Xinjiang, China. The air-cooling island will cool off steam produced by the turbines in 2x300 megawatt generator sets. Modeling the design of the steel structure took about 25 percent less time using STAAD.Pro®, Bentley's 3D structural analysis and design engineering software. STAAD.Pro enabled Hamon to optimize the design and decrease steel consumption from 3,500 tons to 3,100 tons. This represented a savings of CNY 2.5 million.

Suncor Energy (Suncor) designed and implemented a CAN$ 12 million Information Plant (IP) at its Edmonton refinery that integrated the facility’s technical data, engineering resource planning information, and documents into one reliable system, improving and supporting daily operations, maintenance, projects, and business decisions.

Observation Wheel Anchors The LINQ The 168-meter-tall observation wheel aptly named “High Roller” is the focal point of The LINQ, a new quarter-mile open-air shopping, dining, and entertainment district on the Las Vegas, Nevada, Strip. Featuring 28 spherical cabins supported by a circular wheel rim, the ride creates an immersive audio, video, and lighting experience while providing dizzying views of the city for up to 1,120 people each turn. Arup served as engineer of record as part of the project team commissioned by Caesars Entertainment Corporation to develop the USD 550 million district. The firm performed structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as acoustics and fire safety consulting for the observation wheel, which sits opposite Caesars Palace. As the primary building information modeling (BIM) software used by the team, Bentley's Structural Modeler enabled the seamless integration with other applications that was instrumental in 3D coordination and delivery of the project.

The ArcelorMittal USA Flat Roll Operations is comprised of 12 operating facilities employing over 17,000 people. The World Class Equipment Reliability (WCER) team at the ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor hot strip mill has achieved very dramatic results in a one-year period. Total savings in the first year were USD 2,076,900. Other positive benefits include increased safety and a cleaner work environment.

Owner Requirements Drive the Need for Interoperability Located in North Carolina, U.S.A., Fitzpatrick Engineering Group (FEG) specializes in structural engineering solutions for commercial, institutional, and healthcare buildings. The firm was selected by a major healthcare provider in the southeastern United States to be part of an integrated project delivery team for an USD 18 million rehabilitation center. As a long-time Bentley user and an early adopter and advocate of building information modeling (BIM), FEG was committed to using their preferred BIM applications – Bentley's AECOsim Building Designer® and RAM Structural System® – to provide structural design for the 65,000-square-foot, steel-framed building. Using Bentley's integrated and interoperable software enabled FEG to not only easily meet the owner's requirements for a Revit deliverable, and provide the steel fabricator with the most accurate and complete information possible, but also to achieve a USD 28,000 savings in direct material costs and field inspection costs.

This white paper is for architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists who need to move data from Revit Architecture 2009 software to Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 software to further explore, validate, or communicate their designs.

The program classifies rock masses using both the Bieniawski and the Barton methods, making it thus possible to compare the results that can be obtained with the two most frequently used classification methods.

Shibanee and Kamal Architects, principal architects of Bangalore-based Total Environment Building Systems Pvt Ltd, designed the BHAU Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (BIEL) for the College of Engineering, Pune. Located on the bank of river Mula in Maharashtra, India, the Institute is intended to nurture innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, and develop leadership. The INR 60 million building provides educational and research space within an unconventional, bi-directionally curved structure that blends in visually with the college’s 160-year-old campus. The structural engineers used Bentley’s STAAD.Pro® to deliver the precise analysis and visualization that enabled the evaluation of the curved wall itself as a load-bearing element. This substantially reduced the cost of the entire project.

For this asset management system upgrade, the Napier, New Zealand, City Council consolidated its various infrastructure asset management systems to create a single authoritative data source for surveying, CAD, GIS, and asset management applications. The goal was to improve workflow and data flow between systems while maintaining data accuracy and maximizing its return on resource investment

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), the design and construction management part of the Walt Disney Company (TWDC), derives part of its competitive advantage from creative and innovative shows and attractions - and from the safe, fast, and cost-effective construction of these designs.

Approximately 90 percent of enterprises employ remote workers — those who work outside the traditional office some or all of the time, according to Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. In the construction industry, for example, business development executives regularly travel in pursuit of new clients, while project managers move from one job site to the next. And today’s mobile construction workforce relies on remote access to e-mail, fileservers and business-critical data in order to grow their firm’s business and share project management information. However, the use of mobile devices poses security risks that cannot be underestimated.

AutoCAD Civil 2009 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 possess the ability to analyze your road design as you work based
on recognized industry standards or your own user-defined standards. As you build your design, the software will
provide correction and/or notification whenever standards are not met. This capability helps provide many benefits
including greater time savings, reduced rework due to fewer review comments, and more consistent quality designs.
This is made possible through design checks and design criteria files.

This white paper describes the basic concepts and the process of BIM based quantity take-off, estimating and scheduling.Each software vendor have their own terminology, but our principles should be generic. The paper also de-scribes Tocoman’s solution for BIM based estimating and scheduling.

This paper outlines the core components that AutoCAD Civil and AutoCAD Civil 3D use when modeling roads and highlights the fundamental building blocks required when piecing together assemblies and subassemblies.

Bristol Water, the water supply company responsible for providing water to 1.2 million consumers in and around the Bristol area, needed a way to help it monitor its performance and meet increasing challenges presented by the United Kingdom's Traffic Management Act. With Bentley's help, Bristol developed an Exor Information Manager-based solution that provides high-level aggregate executive information, monthly performance reports, and manages noticing and street works activities. This enabled a significant reduction in the administrative burden of reporting, a reduction in street works fines, provided greater visibility of performance, and allowed them to easily meet legislation requirements.

Power Outages and Safety Issues Hinder Water Supply Sabesp MA is a mixed-capital company that provides water and sewage services to the 364 municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is considered one of the largest water and sewage service providers in the world, supplying potable water to 27.7 million people. Two pump stations, Vila Bela and Jardim da Conquista, pump water from the Rio Claro aqueduct, each through an 800 millimeter pipe. The Vila Bela pump station supplied the Jardim da Conquista tank with an average flow of 708 liters per second, and the Jardim da Conquista pump station supplied the Jardim São Pedro tank with an average flow of 388 liters per second. This Jardim da Conquista pump station suffered electrical shutdowns due to failures in the supply of the power utility. Each time this occurred, staff had to be onsite to restart the pumps and electrical panels of the pump station.

Investments in green building strategies consistently result in significant benefits for organizations today. Green buildings not only reduce the environmental impacts of natural resource consumption and green house gas emissions, but they also provide economical benefits such as reduced costs, improved bottom-line performance and higher shareholder value. Learn more in Dr. Romm's whitepaper on "The Green Building Imperative."

4D Models link components in 3D CAD models with activities from the design, procurement, and
construction schedules. The resulting 4D production model of a project allows project
stakeholders to view the planned construction of a facility over time on the screen and to
review the planned or actual status of a project in the context of a 3D CAD model for any day,
week, or month of the project.

Back in 2007, Advanced Roofing—a multi-market contractor based in Florida—wanted to streamline business processes. After some research, Advanced Roofing chose to implement Spitfire Project Management System, the construction project management software designed by Spitfire Management, LLC. It turned out to be a wise investment.

The app rated #1 by ENR readers in an online survey, GRAPHISOFT BIMx™, is now available for download for a wide range of Android devices. For the first time ever, Android users will be able access the 3D viewer app and use it to demonstrate projects and models through the ultimate communication and presentation tool for BIM projects.

Highly professional Architectural BIM design and Bills of Quantities software to use for free? Free UPP is here. A new way to distribute professional software for the Engineering and Architectural industries.
Free UPP (Free Use Pay Print) is born: a revolutionary way to distribute professional Architectural, Engineering and Bill of Quantities/Estimating software. With Free UPP software, use, program updates, training and support are completely free. The customer pays only when needing to print (a very convenient cost for each A4 sheet), and with no expiry date. The first 500 prints are free.
http://www.accasoftware.com/en/id6/free-upp.html
The customer has a free license to use the full-featured version of the software for architectural BIM design and Bills of Quantities/Estimating. Programs with very advanced 2D/3D design features to produce floor plans, cross sections, elevation views, isometric views, perspective views, renderings, photo match simulations, bills of quantities, etc... Free UPP software solutions are complete and professional and can easily be compared to other software such as Revit, All Plan, ArchiCAD or VectorWorks.
With Free UPP software you can collaborate with anyone, because everyone can use the same software for free.
You can also install the software on as many computers as you like free of charge.
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Free UPP is proposed by ACCA software, a company with over 200,000 program users and is one of the most important international manufacturers in the industry.
Free UPP is a new way of thinking of professional software for the Engineering and Architectural industries combining convenience, simplicity and professionalism in a revolutionary way.
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In 2010, Siberian Generation Company worked with Aladon Network member Bellwood Systems Ltd. to pilot a plant reliability program at two plant sites. The project required that Bellwood analyze asset functions and failure modes, and rank these failure modes based on risk to devise an optimized maintenance plan for each asset. To manage and support the program, Bellwood relied on Bentley’s asset performance management software and Aladon Network’s reliability-centered maintenance (RCM2) methodology

Just ten months before the start of the fall
semester, Union College awarded a $10-million renovation project to Sacco + McKinney Architects, largely on the strength of the firm’s presentation to college trustees and administration.

SACS and STAAD Software Optimizes Topside Modules Located in the Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil, the OSX-3 is a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel designed to produce and treat 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil. L&T-Valdel Engineering was commissioned by MODEC International to provide modularization design for the FPSO topside. The challenge was to complete the design of 15 modules and 10 pipe racks within 10 months. The company used SACS for modeling, analysis, and optimization of the FPSO topside structure and STAAD.Pro to design its tertiary steel. Bentley software was used to analyze the module for all static and dynamic loads observed during pre-service and in-service conditions. SACS improved design accuracy and visual clarity, which saved on-site construction time and reduced steel consumption by 10 percent.

Over the past three years there has been a sharp rise in the number of mega projects in boom markets such as the Middle East, and Asia. This has presented the opportunity for US firms to play a leading role in some of the most ambitious construction developments ever undertaken.

If your company has invested (or is in the process of investing) a lot of time and money implementing an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system, including Records Management or Document Management, your goal is likely to make your organization more POTENT (Productive, Organized, Timely, Efficient, Nimble, Traceable). Enabling users to access the documents they need regardless of location or platform – whether across the building, state, country or globe – should increase productivity.

VisionREZ is much more than just a set of features; its solution processes are specifically customized to assist in the model creation process. We have developed new objects – roof, trim, along with projected window and window group tools. We have defined an “A to Z” productivity process for residential work that brings needed standardization to the model development process. These enhancements have been achieved by replacing user-configured design options with standardized configurations.

This white paper is intended to explore the process of secure and efficient paper-based document marking and printing using Microsoft Word. At the same time it will explore the savings that can be realized by implementing an automated solution. This white pa-per is also intended to provide a deeper understanding of the business docu-ment printing and marking processes. It is also intend to provide information that will assist those who are responsi-ble for generating paper-based work-flows as well as those responsible for corporate accountability, compliance and risk management.

AutoCAD Civil 2009 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 possess the ability to analyze your road design as you work based
on recognized industry standards or your own user-defined standards. As you build your design, the software will
provide correction and/or notification whenever standards are not met. This capability helps provide many benefits
including greater time savings, reduced rework due to fewer review comments, and more consistent quality designs.
This is made possible through design checks and design criteria files.

Architect Delmer Cox, principal of Astelier Architectural Workshop, took a chance when he designed a home with contemporary elements, at his clients’ request, to fit among the more rustic existing residences within The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive members-only ski and golf resort in Big Sky, Montana.

In this study, we will create two S-FRAME® models of a three storey office building that has only shear walls in its lateral load resisting system. The first model will consist only of beam type members and the second model will consist only of finite elements – quadrilateral shells. The building will be loaded and the results will be compared.

Imagine trying to construct a sculpture that weighs seven tons, has 98 towers and consists of 2,164 different birch plates. The wooden sculpture was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, modeled in VectorWorks by The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s (ETH ) caad.designtoproduction research group and fabricated by Bach Heiden AG for a workshop Libeskind held at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). HSG, a renowned business school, introduces its new students with a freshman week each year.

RetainWall is a software mainly designed for the purpose of designing a concrete or masonry retaining wall. The wall may retain soil or other granular material. It analyses the stability of the wall based on the loads and the resulting base pressure, sliding, overturning, eccentricities and restraints. Loads applied on the wall may consist of self weight, soil pressure, water pressure, live and seismic loads. Sliding restraints may consist of passive earth pressure, other structures or a shear key. If the wall is a reinforced concrete structure, the software also supports the reinforcement design. In addition, a soil pressure calculator is also provided.
RetainWall is designed to be an easy application, on-screen trial-and-error method and quick solution finding of the design. A familiar designer can design the wall within minutes. Complete outputs can be viewed on screen or printed.
Operation of the software begins from the initial dimensioning of the wall, earth surface and water levels by clicking on the given dimensions. Next is inputting material properties of the wall, soil, water and reinforcement bars. External loads given consist of live load on the ground surface, seismic load as a horizontal seismic coefficient and any concentrated loads if required. Results of the wall stability can be obtained immediately. If they are not satisfied then another trial can be made very quickly. There are also options to use or not to use water, seismic or a shear key. You have the possibility to print your final results.
Using the internal forces of the wall, reinforced concrete design can also be done very quickly. It requires only bar diameters and spacings of the reinforcements.
RetainWall supports metric, SI and British unit systems.

There is an increasingly significant level of urgency surrounding the world’s infrastructure. Bentley's mission has long focused on helping our users improve the world’s infrastructure by providing software solutions, products, and services that improve the productivity and quality of the work of infrastructure professionals throughout the lifecycle (design-build-operate) of infrastructure assets.

Convert CAD drawings from paper sheets or pictures into digital DXF files for editing in your CAD application. Scan a drawing or open a picture from your hard disk. The program recognizes the lines and saves the result as a DXF file.

A new era has dawned with the iconic Ark in North Sydney designed by leading architects Rice Daubney and built by high-proﬁ le
construction contractors Thiess. Ark breaks boundaries, challenges traditions and sets new design benchmarks. For the ﬁ rst time, a
high-rise building has been completely designed and constructed using Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Energy company ScottishPower, a division of Iberdrola, was the first power generator and the second company in the world to be certified on BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55:2008), which benchmarks best practices, in asset management. AssetWise Performance Management and the Bentley Asset Performance Management (APM) Methodology, coupled with the Amor Group Process Safety Methodology and KPI Dashboard, played a key role in ScottishPower’s achievement.

Finley relied on the flexibility and interoperability of RM Bridge and MicroStation to streamline design and collaboration, reducing printing costs with electronic submissions and delivering the superstructure project in less than one year. - See more at: https://www.bentley.com/en/project-profiles/finley_i_49_mlk#sthash.WRuz0EPG.dpuf

The ability to drive a ship design with automated rules is critical to the future of computer-aided ship modeling. A rule-based system allows a shipyard to embed knowledge from many sources, resulting in benefits like reduction in modeling time, reduction in errors, and improved consistency.

To meet the specific needs of the higher education environment Autodesk, Inc. has included new features and reports for A21 Grant Tracking and Expanded Space Classification & Condition Assessment in their 2009 release of FMDesktop. This white paper outlines the new features added.

Engineering Software has developed a new Windows based software package (Energy Conversion) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of gaseous, liquid and solid species, contains coefficients for the calculation of physical properties -- the user has the capability to use the coefficients to carry out independent engineering calculations involving physical properties of various species, steam approximations for both saturated and superheated areas, analyzes power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.

Cottee Parker is an architectural practice established in1988 consistently delivering distinguished designs throughout South East Queensland and forging an enviable reputation for high quality Architecture, Interior Design and Urban Planning solutions. Through the professional and innovative design services of its 70+ staff Cottee Parker have built a business based on delivering client focused results.

Zaha Hadid Architects is a London-based
firm of more than 300 professionals that
pushes the boundaries of architecture and
urban design. The firm’s work experiments
with spatial quality, extending and intensifying
existing cities and landscapes in the pursuit of
a visionary aesthetic on a huge and complex
scale.

Today’s complex oil and gas facilities bring together key engineering and related disciplines needed to design, engineer, and operate the facility across its entire lifecycle. This white paper provides an overview of Bentley’s oil and gas solution and how it addresses key aspects of the lifecycle from conceptual plant engineering, front-end engineering and design (FEED), detailed design, and construction through handover and operations.

ArchiCAD gives users the ability to create great architecture and increase productivity. From day one, ArchiCAD has been designed by architects for architects, and over the years it has gradually become more and more refined to allow its users to better: Focus on design, Manage change, Evaluate design alternatives, Collaborate and Coordinate.

Approximately 44 miles southeast of San Francisco, the city of Livermore has more than
75,000 residents and is part of the rapidly growing Tri-Valley region—home to both
high-tech and residential expansion. The explosive growth has meant increased records
passing through City Hall, increasing the accountability each department has to the City
Council and offi cials.

Setting up network licenses for an Autodesk product requires careful planning and execution. This section gives you quick, step-by-step instructions about how to set up a network licensed environment, and assumes that you are familiar with the terminology and processes required
to successfully set up an Autodesk product to run on a network. If you are not familiar with network licensing, please read the entire Network Licensing Guide for further details before you attempt to set up a network license server.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the world’s leading architecture, urban design, and engineering firms. Since 1936, SOM has completed over 10,000 projects around the world and won
more than a thousand awards for quality and innovation. “We’re best known for designing of some of the world’s tallest buildings, including the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and the Burj Dubai skyscraper in Dubai City,” says SOM Partner Carl Galioto, FAIA.
SOM has also led industry adoption of building information modeling, an innovative approach that closely integrates architectural and engineering design and documentation processes.

Sydney Water has achieved wide-ranging benefits through the use of its new Water Modeling System (WMS). The system, using InfoWorks WS as its core hydraulic software, has greatly improved the efficiency and accuracy of the modeling process as well as leading to savings across the organization thanks to the ease with which it can provide the answers to diverse planning and operational issues.

Engineering Software has developed a new spreadsheet (Steam Approximations Spreadsheet) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of steam for saturated and superheated areas.

Close to three years ago, AECbytes published a case study of the technology implementation at the firm, GHAFARI Associates. This was the time when BIM (building information modeling) was still in the early adoption phase, making GHAFARI stand out as one of the few firms who were not only implementing it successfully within a single discipline, but also in a highly integrated, multi-disciplinary fashion.

Simpo PDF Creator is a powerful PDF writer, with which you can easily create PDFs from any program that is able to print. You can use PDF Creator like a printer in Word, Excel, Powerpoint or any other Windows application.

Sundt chose the Motion F5 Tablet PC, with the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor for improved performance and battery life. The handle, light-weight rugged design, integrated features and size made it the perfect alternative to their traditional laptops.

As the most important tourist destination in Mexico, Cancún provides government services to a growing number of citizens and visitors. Innovación Sistemas y Proyectos (ISP) developed the Cancún Federated Geospatial Information System to modernize the municipality’s cadastral system, and allow different departments to access and update public records.

The architect is a fully diversified retail architecture/design firm. They have completed contract drawings for over 10,000 retail stores around the country. With over 100 employees, their client base continues to grow as do their needs to advance technological support solutions.

BE&K recently conducted an evaluation of AVEVA's Laser Model Interface to see how it could impact our working procedures. Before using Laser Model Interface, it took us four steps to go from capturing as-built conditions with 3D laser scanning, to being able to use and modify that
information inside AVEVA PDMS: a scanner vendor application, a CAD application, and PDMS, with translators back and forth between each one. We implemented Laser Model Interface on a trial
project and found that we could reduce this process to a single step. We expect this streamlined process to save more than three hours per pipe modelled and to significantly reduce the risk of error.'

These downloads will update all Spanish-language VectorWorks 2008 products (Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Machine Design, Fundamentals, and RenderWorks) to version 2008 SP2 (Build 82613). If you are currently using a version of VectorWorks prior to 2008, you must first install version 2008 and then update it to 2008 SP2 using this updater.

A close look at the very latest in 3D Colour Printers. The recent TCT show in the UK marked the unvailing if the very latest in 3D Printers. The Z650 represents the very best in 3D True Colour RP modelling equipment that is both fast, affordable and office friendly.
Cadventure takes you on a quick tour of what the machine.

University of Missouri - Columbia (MU) is situated in a college town of about 70,000, with a student population of approximately 24,000. The Campus Facilities Space Planning and Management office, under the leadership of Scott Shader, is responsible for Space Planning activities that occur in over 200 buildings on the main MU campus and an additional 900-plus buildings across the state. These include four hospital campuses and fifteen agricultural experiment stations. This real estate comprises a very impressive 15 million gross square feet, all of which is managed by the campus using ARCHIBUS.

Sustainable design is the inspiration for all Kiss + Cathcart projects. And the firm relies heavily on VectorWorks Architect’s 2D/3D hybrid environment technology, giving them the power of both an advanced drafting and presentation solution and an intelligent, robust virtual modeling program with high-quality rendering capabilities to bring its designs to life.

When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power(LADWP) surveyed its many stand-alone engineering data repositories, it saw an opportunity to drastically improve its operating efficiency. Eight months later, after implementing ProjectWise®, LADWP’s engineering information management was transformed, dramatically improving the efficiency of engineers, designers, drafters, and construction crews.

The client is one of the largest owners, developers, and managers of commercial real estate in the U.S. Recently, the firm transitioned its information support process from paper to electronic documentation. Now, all of their business documents are first scanned at their scan center, organized, and then routed electronically to the departments required to process the information and make resulting decisions.

Numerous studies have determined that one of the major factors affecting global competitiveness in the marine industry is the ability of an organization to incorporate past experience into future products. Several terms are used to refer to this practice, such as “data reuse” or “experienced ship design.” Regardless of the terminology, the need to adapt past designs to new or changing market demands is paramount to winning new business and delivering quality products on time and within budge

A&D Automatic Gate and Access is a licensed contractor in California and Nevada. The company builds and installs all types of gate systems for private residences, multi-family dwellings (apartments, condominiums, and townhouses), and commercial and industrial projects. A&D has been operating since 1975 and has offices in Northern California and Las Vegas.

Despite the proliferation of computers, networks and CAD, manually distributed, produced, and revised engineering drawings still dominate much of the design/information used today. Capturing, managing, reproducing, and distributing documentation is a necessity for most organizations including manufacturers, utilities, and AEC firms.

This AVI shows how you can create a street network with up to 9 3d polylines offset horizontally and vertically from CL. Other tools shown include generating street network in 2d with, elbow and cul-de-sac converting to 3d and than creating 3d curb returns.

The coordination of activities and resources in order to establish an effective work flow is central to the management of construction projects. The Critical Path Method (CPM) constitutes the predominant technique for planning and scheduling of construction projects, since it was introduced in the late 1950s. Together with Gantt charts, the universal graphical representation of schedules, which was introduced by Gantt and Taylor in the early 1900, CPM provides the common corner stone in the vast number of scheduling software tools that have been developed (Kenley 2004).

Migrating from paper to electronic documents is becoming commonplace for more companies. Yet document migration is a complex journey. It requires careful research and selection of tools to best support your migrations and to manage your entire electronic document lifecycle — scanning, storage, viewing, processing, and archiving. The right choices will reduce costly missteps, and ideally allow you to more rapidly achieve gains in your company's productivity and ROI.

Building an entire practice around a toolset has never been as easy as reselling the FlexSnap editor from Snowbound Software. Far from ordinary, FlexSnap is a complete multi-image viewer in a box. With FlexSnap, solution providers can build a complete PDF practice in hours. Unlike Adobe's Acrobat Reader, the FlexSnap editor is a Java application with a server-side component to queue files on the network and a client to view the files.

The advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to the modeling of surface runoff have long been debated by the water industry and academics alike. The detailed hydraulics of surface runoff is considerably complex and varies both temporally and spatially. Due to the multifarious relationships associated with runoff processes, the mathematical functions required to compute and represent these are also considerably complex and so empirical equations and approaches have historically been developed to describe them for various circumstances.

David Lesser, builder of custom homes for stars like Gary Sheffield and Jorge Posada of the New York Yankees, is a devoted fan of ConstructionOffice. "ConstructionOffice has taken our business to the next level, from AA baseball to the major leagues. We now have a world-class software package that's integrated our entire company.

Engineering Software has developed a spreadsheet (Energy Conversion with Plots Spreadsheet) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of a few gaseous, liquid and solid species, analyzes power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.
In this spreadsheet, the technical performance plots are provided so that the user can quickly observe trends and changes of the major input and output values/parameters on the performance when analyzing power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.

Engineering Software has developed a new spreadsheet (Physical Properties and Steam Approximations Spreadsheet) that quickly, easily and reliably calculates thermodynamic and transport properties of a few gaseous, liquid and solid species and steam approximations for both saturated and superheated areas.

The master plan included hardscape plans, parking plans, traffic flows,
and pedestrian walkways, in addition to the building complexes. Among
these were the existing hospital, the proposed medical arts building, a
parking garage, an assisted living facility, an apartment building, retail
shopping space, a supermarket, townhomes, a bank branch, and a
commercial office building. All this had to be represented in a series of
site views that illustrated how each stakeholder’s requirements would
be met.

When Poblocki Sign Company was given the job of creating the signage for the new Trump International Tower in Chicago, they knew it would be a challenging job. When completed in 2009, the post-modern skyscraper condo-hotel will soar 90 stories on Chicago’s Gold Coast and will be the second tallest building in Chicago.

In growing companies, many of us find ourselves with “management” thrust upon us. We start out as a
talented engineer, sales person, or other specialist; and, before we know it, there’s a team of people
reporting to us, operational responsibilities, and a pile of projects to manage. And our boss assumes that
because we were good at our area of expertise, we also know how to manage.

The Inotera Headquarters and Production Facility is nothing like your typical office building. When the owner of a silicon wafer fabrication facility in Taipei wanted a new home for its production plant and office space, tec Architecture had to think outside the box—quickly. The challenge was to reinvent the traditional office building model to make an architectural and cultural statement.

LPAS Architecture + Design, of Sacramento, California, is a team of multidiscipline design professionals with a 30 year history of providing creative design solutions. “Making buildings together” is the firm’s philosophy. LPAS is committed to working harmoniously as a team with clients, and providing clients with the best working experience and design solutions for a result that brings pride to all project stakeholders.

The following guide is Ideate’s recommended method for setting up the network licensing environment for all Autodesk products on a Windows platform server. The procedures given include setting up network licensing for the first time, updating network licensing, and setting up network licensing when the server changes. For more information on network licensing, please refer to the information found on Autodesk’s website.

PumpBase performs pump selection and will determine the best pump from dozens of pump manufacturers. More than 40 selection criteria can be specified along with TDH, Flow, system curve and NPSHA. Power required along with standard motor and frame sizes are determined. Detailed pump performance curve images are available. Multi-stage trim sizes are optimized for appropriate pumps when needed. The Catalog Builder versions allows a complete Pump Catalog system to be built and maintained by any pump manufacturer.

EADOC enabled the project team to effectively and efficiently communicate with the public through the GIS interface. - See more at: https://www.bentley.com/en/project-profiles/hdr_los_osos#sthash.rj2NncPE.dpuf

As one of the leading geotechnical and environmental engineering firms in the U.S. the client utilizes industry best practices when working to create high quality and sustainable property assets. Coordinating with the project architects, other engineers, construction managers and the developer client, this engineering firm critically relies on both new and old information in setting its standards for engineering design. Now providing services across the country and on a global basis, this company's need for quick access to information is growing rapidly.

Draw tangents with automatic intersection matching, place alignment control points on profile, generate a 3d polyline from design profile, place elevation on even interval, place control points on verical and horizontal control points, even showing high and low points on vertical curve.

The United States General Services Administration (GSA) provides 330M square feet workplace for over one million federal workers in the country. GSA is leveraging BIM in its 11 regions to ensure better as-built documentation, communication, design delivery, and coordination that leads to improved cost predictability.

KENPAT USA improves precision with materials and labor using On-Screen Takeoff® and Quick Bid
Builder implements software to take on new high school project

KENPAT USA, LLC in Apopka, FL, near Orlando, is the newest division of KENPAT International. More than 10,000 successfully-completed projects over the past 25 years have helped make KENPAT a leader in ceiling and partitioning construction and installation.

There is a strong need to address how important it is to have a “gatekeeper” of
the system, someone who is experienced in facility management techniques/
processes as well as in the technical arena. The success of our implementation
comes down to three things: 1) a focused, dedicated and technically skilled
“gatekeeper,” 2) an experienced implementation team to drive and support the necessary steps to build, structure, and baseline the system, and 3) a dedicated internal team and supportive management to drive the schedule, realistically, but aggressively.

This article is designed to give you a step-by-step look at the process of converting your data from a legacy accounting and project management software, to an integrated up-to-date solution. Through client, consultant and industry expert interviews we documented what you need to know to be successful in your software conversion and implementation.

The North Davis County Sewer District, located north of Salt Lake City and just east of the Great Salt Lake in Syracuse, Utah, generates several dozen pages of test result documents every day. With current and proposed regulatory requirements imposed by state and federal regulations, the lab staff at the district had an opportunity to use new document management technology to manage costs and increase overall efficiency. The approach gave the staff the freedom to quickly track document revisions and approvals in a more comprehensive way. The end result not only saves money, it also enables the entire operation to focus on delivering the most accurate water sampling test results possible for the district.

This is the first of six components of Climate Change Tools, a package of guidance developed by the RIBA to encourage architects to engage with the issue of climate change and to deliver low-carbon new
buildings and low-carbon refurbishment of existing buildings.

Learn how successful firms are leveraging Axium's software to improve productivity and profitability. From large enterprise firms to small businesses, Axium provides A/E software that meets the needs of every firm regardless of size. Read this success story.

Based in Northern Virginia, KETTLER is a leading developer of award-winning, mixed-use residential and commercial properties across the Washington Metropolitan area. In 2008, KETTLER was named one of the area’s largest private companies by the Washington Business Journal and is one of the nation’s top multifamily developers. KETTLER has developed more than five million square feet of commercial space and more than 50,000 homes and was named Property Management Company of the Year at the 2008 Pillars of the Industry Awards by the National Association of Home Builders.

During 2007 and 2008, Scottish Water (SW) commissioned a large flow survey as part of its SR10 UID model maintenance program for the Shieldhall, Dalmuir, Dalmarnock and Paisley areas of Greater Glasgow and Renfrewshire. This survey consisted of around 420 flow monitors in total covering a combined catchment area of approximately 600km2.

Time is money in the construction industry, and there's no better way to increase profits than to work more efficiently. Michael Mazer, president of Alternative Home Solutions and a 36 year veteran of the construction industry, found that by utilizing an integrated project management system, the people in his company could finish projects faster and use their time more productively.

When the producers of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition approached Behnke Nurseries about participating in the Emmy Award-winning reality show’s seventh season premiere just two weeks before filming was scheduled to begin, the family-owned nursery was honored to accept the challenge. The two-hour season opener would feature a brandnew 4,800 square-foot house and landscaping for a single mother with four kids of her own, as well as ten nieces and nephews who were in danger of being forced into foster care, since the family had
been living in a hotel.

For international firm Henn Architects, winning projects through competitions and working with foreign contractors comprises a large part of their business. Speed is critical when it comes to getting work done. Speed, flexibility, and intuitiveness come standard in VectorWorks Architect. And VectorWorks Architect has been the firm’s software solution for 12 years, helping them create winning proposals and presentations just in time, every time.

On any mining, power or oil & gas project, good management
of the flow of information between organizations is crucial. One of the
processes that generates the most information, and that is vital to
keeping a project on schedule, is vendor document management. This
document outlines why many companies struggle with vendor document
management. It highlights the limitations of commonly-used workarounds,
and describes how Aconex can help engineering contractors and asset owners
save time and money by dramatically improving the efficiency of this
process.

This opening sequence of CASINO ROY ALE at the building site was actually filmed in the Bahamas in a derelict hotel that had never been finished and had been abandoned for 30 years. CASINO ROY ALE art director Steven Lawrence assisted the design of the sequence using VectorWorks Designer.

Next to a great many benefits, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has also introduced new challenges for the design team. BIM models contain significantly more data and with much tighter integration than traditional 2D CAD drawings. As a result access by teams to projects now contain bottlenecks not known in earlier CAD design methods. Traditional work sharing, by assigning standalone CAD files to individual team members, does not work in case of model-based design since the entire project is incorporated within the BIM model therefore BIM projects require a completely new method of work sharing. To facilitate teamworking in BIM projects software vendors developed file-based model sharing solutions. Team members worked on copies of the BIM project and synchronization of the work of the team was achieved through merging the different versions of the project files. With BIM becoming mainstream and with the recent focus on accelerating construction project completion the clunky, file-based workflow quickly has become “the bottleneck” to timely project delivery.
This whitepaper aims to analyze the different solutions provided to the above-described problem and offer recommendations about the most important criteria one should be aware of when selecting an optimal design sharing solution for BIM implementation.

Ranked within the Top 25 Multifamily Builders of 2008 by Builder magazine, Doster Multifamily is widely regarded as a national leader in wood-frame construction. The way that they do business and the final structures that they produce have given them a reputation of excellence in this highly specialized field of construction.

SACS and STAAD Software Optimizes Topside Modules Located in the Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil, the OSX-3 is a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel designed to produce and treat 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil. L&T-Valdel Engineering was commissioned by MODEC International to provide modularization design for the FPSO topside. The challenge was to complete the design of 15 modules and 10 pipe racks within 10 months. The company used SACS for modeling, analysis, and optimization of the FPSO topside structure and STAAD.Pro to design its tertiary steel. Bentley software was used to analyze the module for all static and dynamic loads observed during pre-service and in-service conditions. SACS improved design accuracy and visual clarity, which saved on-site construction time and reduced steel consumption by 10 percent.

By using the BIM project template, Arup has reduced the time and cost of setting up new projects by two to 10 days, depending on the complexity of the project. This saves GBP 1000 or more per project. - See more at: https://www.bentley.com/en/project-profiles/arup_projectwise_bim#sthash.1vzXg4Pk.dpuf

One of the world's leading project management and construction companies, known for using industry best practices to create high quality, sustainable property assets. The group has a presence in over 40 countries with a significant focus on the U.S.

Growing up as the oldest of 5 boys in Central New Jersey, I was always involved with sports. While there was organized baseball, basketball and football leagues, it certainly wasn't as organized or a politically correct as it is today. For the most part it was just the boys playing a pick-up game and girls were usually not welcome.

Right now things are good for A/E firms. Everyone I talk to seems to be busy working long hours to meet those deadlines. Backlogs are increasing and everyone is looking to hire quality people. Proposals are being sent out as a steady stream and most of my clients seem to be winning at least their fair share of work.

This white paper investigates the benefits of an integrated transportation incident management (TIM) system. It explores implementing intelligent transportation technology in a public safety environment and vice-versa. The bilateral transfer of real-time information between the public safety and transportation subsystems has been researched and discussed much in the last five to six years, but there are presently few such installations.

The U.S. Navy initiated its Smart Ship concept in the
mid-1990s with the goals of improving shipboard quality of life, increasing sailor retention, and reducing workload and ship life-cycle costs. Through innovative concepts, modern but low-cost technology systems, and reengineered processes, the Navy is seeking to produce a “smart fleet” for the 21st century. To make its ships “smart,” the
Navy replaces obsolete ship systems with modern commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems that integrate various applications, workflows, and communications.

From the inside out, everything is done thoroughly and carefully at David A. Nice Builders, Inc. (DNB). The GC specializes in retail store build-outs on a national scale. Their list of distinctive clients includes Tourneau, J Crew, Reebok, Nautica, Nike, and White House/Black Market. They also perform ground-up commercial projects in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. In addition, the company owns and operates Nicewood Enterprises, Inc., a fixture and millwork facility that creates unique, furniture-quality fixtures and store interiors that are shipped nationally. The company’s clients provide premier products. They want a premier builder, and DNB delivers.

Started in Las Vegas in 1999, Red Rock Mechanical provides heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) services for commercial and residential construction. The company has approximately 300 employees and maintains offices in Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. Greg Orr tells how Maxwell Systems™ American Contractor™ efficiently controls payroll for both Red Rock Mechanical offices.

C.E. Jarrell Contracting is a design/build firm based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded by Charles E. Jarrell in 1954, this third-generation family company of approximately 350 employees serves clients from coast to coast.

When it comes to choosing an estimating program for a successful industrial and commercial mechanical contracting firm, Tom Theisen, Vice President and Estimator for Monroe Plumbing & Heating Company adheres to the notion that sometimes less is more.

When Tapani Plumbing, one of the top mechanical contracting firms in the Washington/Oregon region, decided to expand its business, the staff knew it needed an estimating system that would support the complex work they would be undertaking. The company, which has over 20 years of experience working in new construction for residential projects such as assisted living homes, apartment complexes and condominiums, recently decided to add commercial building to its repertoire. Ed Homola, Senior Estimator and Project Manager, knew he needed the proper tools to ensure their continued success in providing quality work. Based on the recommendation of another Maxwell Systems Estimation Logistics user in the area, the company chose our program to help smooth the transition.

In keeping with the “looking ahead” theme of the AECbytes Building the Future series, this
month’s issue takes a look at the application of a sophisticated computational technology to a
specific aspect of AEC: the design and development of a building site. The technology is called evolutionary computing, and it is a subset of the field of artificial intelligence that involves
combinatorial optimization problems, where optimization is the process of finding the most
effective solutions to a problem given a set of constraints. Optimization techniques are being
used in many industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, automotive engineering,
national security, and so on to develop more intelligent and sophisticated problem-solving
applications related to those fields.

Jack Zimmer earned his Master’s degree in Architecture in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin. After several years he began to lose
interest in working for an Architect. In 1980 he shifted gears and decided to start his own design/build business, taking on residential and
small commercial projects.

The legal acceptability of properly authenticated paper documents is well established and accepted throughout various industries. However, the advent of scanning, networks and electronic documents has spawned debate regarding the legality of electronic documents. The statute, Act UPA 28USC p1732, already cites admissibility of electronic (copied) documents and is often used as the governing statute.

The term hybrid denotes a combination of both raster (scanned) and vector (CAD) drawings. "Hybrid editing" means accessing both raster and vector data simultaneously in the same drawing . Changes can be made within either environment. Information can be exchanged back and forth between the two distinctive formats. This approach offers the most efficient method for modifying the old drawing within the new drawing.

Warren Darby built his successful rental company, Rent E Quip, on hard work and trust. So when one of his best customers called one Monday night explaining that he wouldn’t have his rented backhoe back until the following morning, Warren thought nothing of it. When the following morning came around, the customer explained that he was in the middle of pouring concrete and would have it back that afternoon without exception

Highlighting a number of survey and road tools routines, this avi shows how you can create the linework, label the culvert and rotate the blocks at the ends of the culvert in plan and draw the culverts to the profile and sections with NO manual intervention

After viewing the DynaLOT avi, which shows grading for subdivisions with basements, view this avi if you are grading with pads, unique tools for setting lot fronts, pads, slopes between pads that are beside each other or behind each other.

The Kamppi Center building complex is located right in the bustling centerof Helsinki. As a four-year construction project, and with a total budget of €500M, it was the largest single urban construction site in the history of Finland. The center consists of a central bus station, a metro terminal, an internal parking area, a six-floor shopping center, and premium quality offices and residential apartments.

AutoDWG DWG to Image Converter featured with batch converting, easy to use wizard, converting many DWG and DXF files to JPG (JPEG), TIF (TIFF), GIF, PNG, BMP in one go. AutoCAD not required. SHX,Xref and Line Width supported; You may set the Image Size, Output Color (True Colors,Gray and Black-White), Background Color; You may convert model space, all layouts, all paperspace, or last active layout to Image file; You can adjust the size of output pages with its layout automatically; Version 3.3 supports AutoCAD R2.5 to R2009 drawings.

The Kamppi Center building complex
is located right in the bustling center
of Helsinki. As a four-year construction
project, and with a total budget of €500M,
it was the largest single urban construction
site in the history of Finland. The center
consists of a central bus station, a metro
terminal, an internal parking area, a six-floor
shopping center, and premium quality
offices and residential apartments.

Carnegie Mellon University was founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who wrote the time-honored words, "My heart is in the work," when he donated the funds to create Carnegie Technical Schools. Today, Carnegie Mellon is recognized as a pioneer in the use of computing in education. Its Andrew computing network, named for benefactors Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, is among the most advanced on any campus. To support the school’s growing computing demands, the university’s Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) staff developed a Web-based, self-help telecommunications application using ARCHIBUS.

Now you can protect your works with this DWGLock software, the entities in the send out drawings can NOT be copied nor changed. However, recipients can open up the drawing, add lines and markups. Only the drawing owner allows extracting the drawing, if they need to, enclosing the added part with the native drawing. This is ideal solution for the collaboration needs and contractors.

Construction firm Alpha Development wanted to integrate project management and accounting systems to more accurately reflect its business operations. To accomplish this goal, the company switched from Sage Office Timberline project accounting software to Microsoft Dynamics® SL with help from Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Synergy Business Solutions.

BrownettAccording to Henry Kaiser, “The only human endeavor that exceeds construction in the marshalling of manpower and materials is war.” As a participant in the great Hoover Dam project, he understood the complexity of the construction process.

One of the major challenges faced by water network modelers is the presentation of results to those not directly involved in the modeling process. Modelers are often extremely involved at a very technical level, but it is often challenging for them to translate their ideas and findings into a format for distribution to system operators or managers.

Presentations have to either inform or persuade, or do both. For example, trainers and educators want to drive understanding of new concepts. Consultants must present their recommendations for change, often to a skeptical audience. With sales presentations, a purchase decision is the ultimate action you are trying to influence; depending on your stage of the sales process, however, you may have other intermediate goals for a presentation.

To create jobs and upgrade the nation’s infrastructure, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) allocates $130 billion to construction projects. Government agencies and project managers are under considerable pressure to deliver ARRA projects with maximum efficiency and minimal waste. This white paper outlines three critical challenges to any stimulus package construction project, and shows how using an online collaboration platform can help overcome these challenges and deliver successful projects.

Smatured considerably over the last 10-15 years. What initially started as large format scanning for the CAD market segment in the early nineties has found its way into new market segments and new application driven demands for large format scanner solutions in CAD, GIS, Reprographics and the Photo
market segment.

Koutsoftides Architects, a small, design-oriented firm, represents the majority of the ArchiCAD user base.
Its founder, Costas Koutsoftides’s aim was never to grow big in size and profit, but to design what he likes and to do it in the highest quality possible. Awarded with the Republic of Cyprus architectural award, listed as one of the world’s 101 upcoming practices in Wallpaper, and representing his country at the Barcelona and Venice biennales, proves that this approach is
not only satisfying but also successful.

While the overall performance of a software program or hardware platform can be measured using standard benchmarks, actual user productivity is a more difficult metric to gauge, since it often includes perceptions of the overall user experience and must account for differences in the methods employed while using the software.

WORKSHOP8’s high profile Paisan Green Community project, has been presented at several conferences across the US, most notably at HUD’s Going Green: Intelligent Investment for Public Housing conference in Boston in July 2012. Paisano Green Community is the first NetZero, fossil fuel free, LEED Platinum, affordable senior housing project in the United States. This 73 unit project is built on a 4.2 acre site, adjacent to the major border crossing between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.

To disseminate green design best practices to housing authorities around the country, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is assembling a website with case studies of energy efficiency programs implemented by public housing authorities from around the country. At HUD’s request, WORKSHOP8 and Sustainably Built prepared a white paper outlining the best practices in delivering sustainability and green design in affordable housing.

The 13-page white paper describes the energy efficiency strategies—both passive and active—that are included in the project. Sustainably Built put together a comparison of the building design versus the IECC 2009 code requirement and modeled the energy consumption of a typical one bedroom unit as built at Paisano Green Community versus a unit built to base code standards.

HYDROFLO is a drag and drop piping system analysis tool with a unique vertical Hydraulic Grade Line workspace. Pipes, pumps, tanks, gauges and a wide variety of fittings and control valves can be used to construct and model pumped, gravity and recirculating flow systems. Steady state flows and pressure are calculated for systems flowing any type of fluid.

The I-10 Mobile River Bridge spans the Mobile River near downtown Mobile, Alabama, with a minimum vertical clearance height of 215 feet, making it the second highest clearance bridge in the United States. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) used Bentley’s visualization and reality modeling software, LumenRT, to deliver real-time, immersive visualizations for the crucial public involvement meetings.

The city of Alameda has earned the nickname, “Silicon Island,” due to the thriving
high-tech fi rms in its modern business parks. In this new century incredible
opportunity awaits the City with expansion and development. Alameda Point, site of the
former Alameda Naval Air Station, is being converted to new residential neighborhoods,
shopping districts, recreational facilities, and business parks.

In August 2000, a man was murdered during an attempted robbery at his home on the west side of
Charlotte, North Carolina. Witnesses described the clothing of the suspected robbers, and the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department later arrested several suspects. However, questions continued about who actually killed the victim. While the witnesses identified the shooter by his clothing, the suspects disputed who was
wearing which clothing. Prosecutors needed
to identify the triggerman to correctly charge
the perpetrators.

Residential architects use building blocks from countless industries. Most architectural CAD software provides the means of defining and reusing these items. VisionREZ refers to these items as content. Creating and managing content items presents many challenges to architects and designers when setting up and using CAD software.

Anchors establish fixed relationships between two or more objects in VisionREZ. One object can be anchored to one or more other objects, depending on the anchor type. Anchors establish the notification chain so that when the source object is updated, the anchored object can update as well. VisionREZ defines several anchors, all designed to make drawing and editing easier and faster. These anchors provide for automatic control of your drawing data. For example, tags are anchored to windows when the tag is inserted into your drawing. When the window object is changed, such as changing the window’s width, the tag is updated to show the new width automatically.

J. Marion Bryan & Sons is a family-owned company that’s served the Delmarva Peninsula region of Maryland since 1949. Bryan & Sons engages in all facets of residential, commercial and industrial site/utility and land improvements from
small driveways to 2000-lot sub-divisions, airport runways, landscaping, and
much more.

Bryant Management began managing properties in 1981, focusing on small rental houses in Vermont. In 1986, the company entered the market of managing recreational vehicle (RV) parks. Bryant Management relocated to Houston, Texas and continued to buy RV parks as well as several apartment communities. Today, this successful property management company owns and manages 13 RV parks located in Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Mississippi.

Luken Holdings is a property management company based in Chattanooga, TN with approximately $20M in annual revenues. The firm owns a portfolio of 50 real estate holdings representing more than two million square feet of space and over 400 tenants. Managing shopping centers, retail shops, a golf course, business offices and industrial space is all in a day’s work for Luken’s 25 employees.

“SITEOPS was very useful to us in that the grading was generated more quickly—and not only generated but quantified,” says David. “It was much easier to present to the client knowing that we had some physical data to back up where these numbers were coming from.”

“We probably went through four to five months of trying different things,” says Hart. “Within a matter of eight hours, SITEOPS was able to produce nearly the same design and grading plan that had taken us months.”

Raster scanning has proven itself as an initial bridge for moving critical paper engineering drawing archives into an electronic environment. The benefits begin with a scan but evolve and multiply as drawings are brought closer to a true CAD modeling environment.

OK, we know that everyone out there is always efficient, remembers to distribute information to all the correct people, and never forgets to put the file back in its drawer! Except that it’s already 6:00 PM and you've got to get to your kids soccer match, so you'll just put that customer file with its invoice question on top of your desk and get to it first thing in the morning. Only, the next morning, the first thing is a lengthy meeting. That file is now in your "really important" to do pile and when that customer calls back, no one can find the file.

To compete in today's world, a company has to deliver the best product or service at a fair price, in the shortest time to market, and do so in a fast-growing, technologically driven environment. One way to gain an edge on competitors is to use the tools and processes that efficiently update the tremendous amount of engineering documents that most companies maintain.

Platt Electric needed quicker access to critical information for accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash deposits to speed up business processes and improve customer service. The records were stored in 64 file cabinets at the corporate office, plus hundreds of file cabinets at their 83 branch offices. When someone needed to access a record, they had to locate the correct file cabinet and manually search. Records were sometimes misfiled, which made the process even longer. The file cabinets were also taking up valuable office space.

Although computer-aided design is widely used in
the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC)
industry, the exchange of information is still largely a manual process, where 2D paper drawings are
reviewed to identify conflicts. Obviously, this process is time consuming and inefficient —not only do many conflicts go undetected but it’s nearly impossible to quickly determine how design changes will affect the project’s cost and schedule. Thus, an average project will lose 8 to 15 percent of labor costs due to mistakes that cause change orders, delays, and rework.

Carney Excavating uses construction management system to complete accounting tasks. With a few mouse clicks, Trisha Carney can find out exactly how much Carney Excavating spent on a specific phase of any project. In the past, such a task was a painstaking, time-consuming process. But now Carney uses Dexter + Chaney's Spectrum construction management software to complete the earth-moving company's payroll, accounts payable and receivable and job-costing functions.

Design Data attended this year’s Design Build Institute of America’s Design Build Conference and Expo. Held at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, this conference is the biggest Design Build event in the world.

In Spring 2006, Ripley Entertainment opened Great Wolf Lodge, a 406-room, all-suite, indoor water park resort in Niagara Falls. The opening marked Ripley Entertainment’s first venture into the water park and resort industries, a new step for the nearly 90-year-old entertainment company with 64 attractions in 11 countries.

The Varma Samisaari is an office complex, comprising eight office buildings ranging in height from four to twelve floors, two underground parking levels and an internal courtyard with total gross area of 66,000 sq. meters / 710,400 sq. feet

A worldwide technological leader in the handling and processing of sulphur, Enersul offers a full range of integrated services to the sulpher industry ranging from production to consumption. Due to the complexity of the processes, Enersul faced several challenges in its design build process including bottlenecks in time and man-hours, much of which occurred during the internal quality assurance and quality controls processes that check data sheets, Piping and Instrumentation Drawings (P&ID) and line lists. Another challenge Enersul faced was the element of human error such as the failure to catch inconsistencies or inaccuracies early on.

Founded by Robert Bibb in 1979, Bibb and Associates, Incorporated, Lenexa, Kansas, is a full service, multidisciplinary engineering and architecture firm.
Early in 1996, the Bibb Power Division began investigating database driven, 3D CAD software systems. The most critical element of these systems is the need to enter information only once in the database. This saves Bibb Power Division huge amounts of time while working on projects.

Open Light 2009 Object Enabler is a freeware application distributed to Autodesk customers at no charge for the purpose of fully accessing Open Light objects in drawing files. Without this object enabler installed, you can share drawings using proxy graphics representations or the Export to AutoCAD command.

In the spring of 2003, Encon, Inc. of Stratford, Connecticut realized that in order to continue providing superior service for its commercial and residential HVAC customers, it would have to replace its separate service and job cost software systems. During the process of evaluating software solutions, the importance of having a single, integrated service management solution became exceedingly clear.

Whether it is more apt to describe cyanotype as invented - or discovered - by Sir John Herschel in 1842, is a question the reader may decide by the end of this essay. Whatever the verdict, it is well-known that this process of photographic contact-printing in Prussian blue was brought to light just three years after Louis Daguerre and Henry Talbot had announced their independent inventions of photography in silver, using metal and paper substrates, respectively.

Metro Electric Co. (www.metroelec.net) of Charleston SC had been an extremely happy user of Spectrum Document Imaging since 2005. The company employed the product for archiving job-related documents, time and materials billing, electronic invoice approval and other everyday activities. Founded in 1976, Metro Electric performs industrial, commercial and institutional contracting work primarily in South Carolina but also in North Carolina and Georgia.

The follow guide is Ideate’s recommended method of creating a network deployment for AutoCAD 2009. The procedures given are an overview of the creation of a network deployment of AutoCAD 2009 to be run in non-silent mode.

Brasfield & Gorrie started in Birmingham, Ala., in 1921, as the Thomas C. Brasfield Company and was purchased by Miller Gorrie in 1964. Since then, they have grown steadily–with offices in Atlanta, Orlando, Raleigh, Nashville and Jacksonville–and now manage a diverse portfolio that includes projects in healthcare, retail, education, office and industrial sectors. Today, Brasfield & Gorrie is the 32nd largest contractor and the 16th largest general builder in the United States because they prioritize the
needs of their clients and communities to create excellence in every project they undertake.

In 1966, James G. Davis, Sr., made trust, excellence in service, integrity and building relationships his core values when he founded James G. Davis Construction Corporation (DAVIS) in the Washington,
D.C., suburb of Rockville, Md. Over the next four decades, staying true to those values enabled the company to become the 45th largest general contractor in the United States and the third largest in the Washington, D.C., metro area. DAVIS has earned its trusted reputation to provide consistent excellence in building, remodeling, and interiors without risk to workers or owners and has made a commitment to making safety a number one priority. Today, DAVIS performs more than $815 million of construction work annually.

Client success is what we're all about at Transoft Solutions. The best support we receive comes from users who tell us how they've applied our solutions to their work. Now learn how our airside design software, AeroTURN Pro, helped Keith Foglia, project manager from Urban Engineers, Inc with his latest airport project.

Unified Theory, Inc. (UTI) is a Full Service Consulting and Engineering firm. UTI specializes in design of Industrial and Institutional Facilities, along with Process Design. We see ourselves as a focused and flexible company with rapidly deployable resources with the use of such case tools as AutoTURN.

Various types of breaches of water containment systems, such as dam breaks, dyke failures and canal breaches, can lead to loss of life and damage to properties and infrastructure. HR Wallingford has developed a tool to appraise the likely consequences of canal embankment breaches that sits within a formal risk assessment framework.

One of the major challenges faced by water network modelers is the presentation of results to those not directly involved in the modeling process. Modelers are often extremely involved at a very technical level, but it is often challenging for them to translate their ideas and findings into a format for distribution to system operators or managers.

Anglian Water and Clear Environmental Consultants have found InfoNet to be ideal for use as a model-building tool in their management of Drainage Area Plans (DAPs). InfoNet has been used in the preparation and processing of manhole surveys, with the data then imported directly into an InfoWorks hydraulic model of an area around Bury St Edmunds. Linking the two Wallingford Software solutions has enabled the team to develop a streamlined approach to building models that is proving far more efficient than traditional, multi-step procedures.

It seemed simple: develop a modern house within the existing frame of an 18th-century cottage and design an addition to provide more living space. The initial intent was to renovate the existing structure and design an extension that reflected the cottage’s traditional lines. But, the design evolved organically from there, and the project proved to be more involved than the architects first thought, according to Brian Messana, principal, Messana O’Rorke Architects.

The Town of Spa, Belgium, which gave us the word “spa,” has been famous for its healing hot mineral springs as far
back as Roman times. Today, the town is best known as home to the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, which hosts the annual Belgian Formula One Grand Prix.

When faced with the challenges of steep slopes, eroding shorelines, invasive flora, critical area buffer restrictions, structural demolitions and reconstruction, storm water management, reforestation, and complex site programming on a recent project, Graham Landscape Architecture relied on VectorWorks LANDM ARK to consolidate all pertinent information electronically and manage the layers of information required for each aspect of the project, for each member of the team.

The use of a highly flexible computer aided design (CAD) system provides a very high level of design freedom to architects at Morehouse MacDonald & Associates, Lexington, Massachusetts, who specialize in high-end custom homes.

Martin Hoch used to draw his plans with India ink and paper, then color the copy. This approach left little room for modifications. Then a member of the Swiss gardeners association introduced him to VectorWorks. When he saw “impressive examples” of 3D models and renderings created in VectorWorks, he was hooked. Less than three months after that, Hoch presented his first 3D designs in VectorWorks at an exhibition.

Recently European standard EN 12811 [Ref.3] has been published which gives guidelines on the
safety and design of scaffolding structures. In addition, a specific standard EN 12810 [Ref.1] was
published concerning façade scaffolds.

OK, so you have a great idea for a new business. You’re excited about it. Your gut tells you it’s going to work—but where do you go from here? Most new businesses fail. Here are three things you can do to avoid that grim statistic and succeed.

Media Environment Design designs high-end home theaters. When president and owner Sam Cavitt decided to relocate his business to the Hawaiian island of Maui, VectorWorks proved to be an essential asset—not only increasing his quality of life, but increasing the quality of his work.

LeanWall is a software mainly designed for the purpose of designing a concrete or masonry leaning wall. The wall may lean on rock or soil and may retain soil or other granular material. It analyses the stability of the wall based on the loads and the resulting base pressure, sliding, anchor stresses and excentricities. Loads applied on the wall may consist of self weight, soil pressure, water pressure, live and seismic loads. If the wall is a reinforced concrete structure, the software also supports the reinforcement design. In addition, a soil pressure calculator is also provided.
LeanWall is designed to be an easy application, on-screen trial-and-error method and quick solution finding of the design. A familiar designer can design the wall within minutes. Complete outputs can be viewed on screen or printed.
Operation of the software begins from the initial dimensioning of the wall, earth surface and water levels by clicking on the given dimensions. Next is inputing material properties of the wall, soil, water and reinforcement bars. External loads given consist of live load on the ground surface, seismic load as a horizontal seismic coefficient and any concentrated loads if required. Results of the wall stability can be obtained immediately. To meet a stable wall, rock or ground anchors may be provided. If they are not satisfied then another trial can be made very quickly. Final results can be printed.
Using the internal forces of the wall, reinforced concrete design can also be done very quickly. It requires only bar diameters and spacings of the reinforcements.
LeanWall supports metric, SI and British unit systems.

Many architectural structures go down in history as works of art. But how about architectural drawings? When Hampshire County Council Property Services undertook the design of one of the United Kingdom’s largest secondary schools for children with special learning needs, the organization had
no idea its VectorWorks design and construction drawings would be turned into art.

Scott Carver is an interdisciplinary design firm based in Sydney Australia, offering integrated design services to the property development industry throughout the Australasian and Asia Pacific regions. Core capabilities include Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Interior and Landscape Architecture across different markets and building types and have more than 20 years expertise in Hospitality, Retail, Commercial

Normally, keeping track of the right file version saves engineers time, but in the case of legally sealed documents, good version control can also save some embarrassment. For any engineering firm, sealing the wrong version of a document can be a serious professional error, even exposing the company to legal action.

Design family homes, shopping malls, high-rise buildings or just an apartment within a real 2D/3D environment using all the available tools for planning and visualizing buildings. With its simple usability, exact results and yet reasonable price tag the software clearly stands out of the crowd.
Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 2 offers a variety of brand-new features as well as improvements in usability and workflow management. Some of these changes have been brought about through user suggestions and contributions. Use for example the surface design tool to design your own surfaces, wrap objects into smooth shadows for even more authentic interiors, choose from a variety of different solar elements, or go on a virtual tour to fully explore your CAD projects.
On top of everything, Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 2 now comes with the Quantities Plug-in. With this plug-in you can easily keep track of complex projects and develop your personal planning strategy.
New Features:
- Quantities Plug-in enabling for a deep analysis of the whole planning process
- Surface design tool that lets you design your own surfaces
- Enhanced building planning process for whole buildings or single stories
- Smooth shadows for even more authentic interiors
- Extended 2D functionality
- Data input assistance during planning and construction phase
- Solar elements with own catalogue
- Virtual tour enables you to fully explore your CAD projects
- New 3D objects for kitchen areas, bathroom areas and other areas of the house
- General program improvements like support for imperial system of measurements, Pan in 2D view and many more!

Plan your building and furnishing projects yourself on your PC with Ashampoo 3D CAD Professional 3. From furnishing a living room, via a loft conversion through to the planning of a complete complex of buildings this software will provide you will all necessary highly-professional functions.
With the new start wizard you can start your planning immediately, regardless of how experienced you are with CAD software. In the start wizard’s menu you have the option to watch training videos or you can edit an already existing sample project. The integrated project wizard enables you to quickly and easily create a ground plan of your project and to adjust important basic settings.

Multi Span Australia, with over 40 years experience in the design and construction industry, has a deserved reputation for professional expertise. Their portfolio includes commercial, education, hospitality, public buildings, residential, retail, workplace, industrial, warehouse and factory spaces.

Cloud printing is now ubiquitous and accepted as an integral part of most companies’ document management infrastructure. For the last two years ARC, with the cloud application ishipdocs, has been providing customers with Cloud Printing Services (CPS). ishipdocs users range from global Enterprises to Single users. What these users have in common is the desire to get large business documents anywhere, at anytime, in the shortest amount of time.

Rectangular and simple - this description doesn’t apply to the new Science and
Congress Center in Darmstadt! On the contrary -- the complex acts as an expressive, angular sculpture with a dynamic design. The building was named after the artificial chemical element, „Darmstadtium,“ developed in Darmstadt in 1994. The building changed the city dramatically, since it is located in a prominent position opposite the
historic City Palace, which creates an interesting urban context.

Map Limited, a 10-person engineering and land surveying firm in Silverdale, Washington, has seen its share of ups and downs in its 40 years in business. Like most firms in the industry, they have downsized over the past few years due to the downturn of the business climate. Pat Fuhrer, P.E. and Principal Engineer for Map Ltd., knew they had to change the way they approached business if they wanted to survive. The change would come in the form of patented, cloud-based land development software, SITEOPS.

Printform 2013 is a software that enables you to process and manage more than 2100 building processing forms. Plenty integrated functions such as automated adoption of core data help you to accelerate your work processes and to get more efficient.

ESM Productions (ESM), a local company tasked with event planning for the Pope’s visit, retained AEROmetrex to help engineer the complex logistics for this historic event. Hosting the event required massive planning and coordination with municipal and state agencies, as well as with the U.S. Secret Service. To accommodate the 56,400 temporary structures needed, 33 miles of security barricade perimeter, and the impact of local road closures, while ensuring smooth traffic flow and seamless communication throughout the planning process and the event, ESM needed comprehensive, realistic, and integrated 3D modeling and simulation software

The problem of dimensioning and verifying these structures is solved by Diadim through a finite differences model (FDM) that has been especially designed to evaluate the interaction between soil and structure.

The MAN Group is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of vehicles, engines and mechanical engineering equipment with annual sales of circa 13 billion Euro. MAN provides trucks, buses, diesel engines, turbomachines as well as industrial services and numbers some 50,000 employees worldwide. MAN's core areas hold leading positions in their respective markets. As one of the 30 leading German companies, MAN AG (Munich) is a member of the German stock index, or DAX.

Incorporating Lattice's unmatched compression and 3D applications into processes throughout the company enabled Toyota to institute a parts information management system that decreases procurement errors by 30%, while creating a more accurate, intuitive, easier to use parts system that works 25% faster than before.

A pioneer in recycling construction throughout the United States and around the globe, Recycled Materials Company, Inc. (RMCI) has tied producing recycled aggregate with utilizing value engineering to gain acceptance from government
agencies. In addition to offering construction services, RMCI takes recyclable rubble and, with it, produces specification recycled aggregates. RMCI was started in 1987 with one portable recycling plant and five employees. Today, the company employs 70 managers, supervisors, and craftsmen and operates a fleet of portable and mobile recycling plants.

Tri-City Mechanical has been delivering quality service throughout Arizona since it was founded in 1962. In 1997, Tri-City Mechanical became part of Comfort Systems USA, whose goal is to become the premier national provider of HVAC services in the United States. This $85 million company employs about 500 people.

Vice President Shawn Godwin began an extensive search and consulted with Palmetto Paving’s CPA and bonding agent, who made suggestions, checked references and helped them with evaluations. They saw demonstrations of popular construction systems, but most of them were designed for general construction. As a paving and grading contractor with a lot of equipment to track and two asphalt plants, they needed a system that was geared for heavy construction. 17-year-old Palmetto Paving was also challenged with managing the accounting of multiple companies — a paving and grading company, a curb and gutter company, a sealing company, and two asphalt plants. Their accounting staff entered transactions for all five companies, a process that was complicated and inefficient. They needed a streamlined approach to handling transactions between the companies.

Don Chapin Company is a private engineering construction firm in Salinas, Calif. The 30-year-old business performs a full range of projects from small homeowner jobs, to major new home developments and highway construction in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties. Their business approach is to provide customized, top-quality solutions for every customer.

Fischer Excavating & Materials is a major producer and supplier of aggregate material in Northwestern Illinois. The company is comprised of three divisions: excavating (founded 1994), materials (founded in 2001) and stone (founded in 2005). The company has experienced a great deal of growth and implemented Maxwell Systems StreetSmarts to streamline its job cost accounting and management of contracts and subcontracts.

United Maintenance, an Atlanta-based HVAC contractor, needed to automate operations to manage its 60 employees, control a service fleet of 24 trucks, and deliver service to a number of high-profile clients that rely heavily on their services. Service Manager Kent Montgomery and his team of dispatchers manually handled more than 100 calls per day.

Wm. L Robinson Concrete of Linden, Pennsylvania has been in business since 1972. The company’s specialties include concrete placement for footers, piers, walls, beams, pads, floors-on-grade, floors-on-deck, sidewalks and curbs, using concrete pumping for placement and laser screed for leveling.

A company as intricate as Primo Electric Company understands how important it is to have a software system that not only matches the business in complexity, but is also easy to use. This balance between complexity and ease of use is one reason Primo Electric has used Maxwell Systems’ electrical estimating system for the past eight years.

Bill Zellmer, Project Manager and Senior Estimator at Northern Air Corporation (NAC) cites Maxwell Systems Estimation Logistics as one of the reasons for their continued success. He believes that dedicated personnel and commitment to quality and value is what differentiates NAC from its competitors. That is why after careful consideration he felt Maxwell Systems’ support and dedication to the mechanical industry differentiate us from our competitors and thus met their needs the best.

Training and support are perhaps the most significant factors in getting the most out of a software program. Formal classroom or on-site training will teach users the basics, but what about the specifics? Some software questions require a more targeted approach that will get answers fast. Enter Web Center – the virtual classroom that comes directly to the user.

For the past 35 years, DeSantis Commercial, Inc. has been a full-service commercial realtor located on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Operating throughout the state of Florida, DeSantis Commercial handles all facets of commercial real estate including Buyer/Tenant Representation, Consulting, Sales and Leasing, and Property Management.

While companies strive to protect their investments, the U.S. Patent Office is challenged with approving or rejecting patent applications for many new approaches, business models, and unheard of ideas. Imaging technology and tools can significantly impact patent application and infringement research resulting in a more accurate validation process.

FLA Orthopedics supplies domestic and international distributors and retailers with over 700 unique soft goods products, each having a considerable cache of documents the company has to stay on top of to do business. This manufacturing company of 200 employees based in Miramar, Florida, manages CAD drawings, heat tests, manufacturing instructions, and engineering change orders, along with customer orders and shipping documentation. Keeping track of all this had become a major challenge that FLA Orthopedics’ IT Director Chris Honig took on earlier this year.

Tocci Building Corporation actively seeks out cutting-edge tools and methodologies that will give it the competitive advantages needed to be a better provider to its clients. But like many building industry companies providing construction services, Tocci faced some common information challenges inherent in the complex building process. Among these were two issues of immediate concern: how to improve the control and management of job costs to recoup time and materials expenditures, and how to ease the complicated process of locating documents for legal discovery. At the core of these concerns was the ability to find the right documents quickly.

Brais, Malouin and Associates, Inc., located near the heart of Quebec on the island of Montreal, is an energy engineering consulting firm specializing in combustion and energy utilization design and modeling. BMA helps its clients—who are in energy-intensive industries such as mining, pulp and paper, metallurgy, and petrochemical—solve their combustion problems and improve energy efficiencies. BMA is highly specialized, but what sets them apart is their experience and the unique tools they have at their disposal that enable them to create solutions for their clients that other firms cannot.

A successful conversion to a new construction-management software package requires considerable time and effort on the part of the electrical contractor's staff. That's a given. But the experiences of Collins Electrical of Stockton CA demonstrate that there's a right way to perform the conversion, to ensure that valuable resources are expended efficiently and the conversion is ultimately successful.

AutoDWG DWG to Image Converter featured with batch converting, easy to use wizard, converting many DWG and DXF files to JPG (JPEG), TIF (TIFF), GIF, PNG, BMP in one go. AutoCAD not required.Pro version Supports command line. SHX,Xref and Line Width supported; You may set the Image Size, Output Color (True Colors,Gray and Black-White), Background Color; You may convert model space, all layouts, all paperspace, or last active layout to Image file; You can adjust the size of output pages with its layout automatically; Version 3.3 supports AutoCAD R2.5 to R2009 drawings.

AutoDWG DWG to Image Converter featured with batch converting, easy to use wizard, converting many DWG and DXF files to JPG (JPEG), TIF (TIFF), GIF, PNG, BMP in one go. AutoCAD not required. SHX,Xref and Line Width supported; You may set the Image Size, Output Color (True Colors,Gray and Black-White), Background Color; You may convert model space, all layouts, all paperspace, or last active layout to Image file; You can adjust the size of output pages with its layout automatically; Version 3.3 supports AutoCAD R2.5 to R2009 drawings.

Like most public educators, the people of Durham District School Board in Ontario, Canada, aren't in it for the money. However, over the past couple of years they've seen what a little extra cash can do. Upon implementing ARCHIBUS, the Board was able to submit accurate space usage data to the provincial Ministry of Education, uncovering a substantial increase in funding for the district. This is more than just money in the bank - it's money that directly impacts the quality of children's education.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. provides advanced imaging, communications, and information solutions to the government and commercial aerospace markets. Its Facilities department weathered years of time-consuming, manual management systems before implementing ARCHIBUS applications that made space, maintenance, and lease information accessible and reportable. Since then, the department has expanded its implementation along with its role as a strategic player in the organization.

An On Center Software client, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., was bidding two large construction projects that required the estimator to itemize the takeoff into numerous breakouts, including Subdivision, Section and Work Breakdown Structure. This sorting process can be very time-consuming when done manually.

Since 1848, Hubbell Inc. has been committed to preserving the beautiful natural resources of the Catskill Mountain region, while fulfilling the needs and dreams of their clients through exceptional excavation, site development and road building services.

Over this period the firm has earned respect from clients ranging from public officials to
commercial developers for responsive client service, costeffective performance, creativity
and environmental awareness on both new construction and renovation projects. At least one of their four partners personally oversees every project.

Giprogazcentr is a division of Gazprom, which is the largest gas company in the world. Giprogazcentr is one of the leading design enterprises of the Russian gas industry. The institute has created projects for more than 36 000 km of various diameters of gas pipeline, about 170 compressor rooms, more than 1100 gas-distributing stations and 160 gas-filling compressor stations. They have also produced about 200 km of electrical mains, 9550 km point-to-point local connection lines, 826 km of channels for linear tele-control systems, and 167 base stations for VHF-radio communication. Giprogazcentr conducts design works all over the Russian Federation, and also in Turkmenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, and Uzbekistan and in the Ukraine.

Kraftanlagen Heidelberg GmbH designs and constructs machines for energy production. Their business activities include every step starting with strategy through to construction through to the use of the machines.

Dahlman Industrial Group is a company which has wide experience and knowledge in the field of design, production and installation of dust-, gas- and liquid filtration systems.
Since 2002, Dahlman Industrial Group has used Plant-4D for designing their filter systems. These filter systems are skid mounted units, which are completely manufactured and tested at Dahlman facilities. This means that as soon as the unit arrives at site, it can be connected and filtration can start.

Siemens Demag Delaval is a world class supplier of centrifugal compressors, steam turbines and auxiliary systems. The company is a full subsidiary of the Siemens organisation. Their specialisation is within the oil & gas market, focusing on added value to their customers.
Since 1999, Siemens Demag Delaval uses Plant-4D of CEA Systems for designing the lube oil- and seal gas systems. Since a short while, also the tubing in the seal gas systems are fully designed into the 3D-model. This speeds up the work on the shop floor, says Klaas Agelink. He is teamleader of Systems Drafting and closely involved in the use of Plant-4D.

This article is about Digital Asset Management or “DAM” as it is often abbreviated to. In particular, it is concerned with how marketing and PR managers working for large and medium sized organisations can use Digital Asset Management. If you are an SME or photographer looking for information on setting up your own DAM system, the resources section at the end of ths article has links of interest, also, our Digital Asset Management Glossary is a useful general reference.

This article is designed to be read as a follow up to Digital Asset Management: An Introduction For Marketers or by those who already have an appreciation of what DAM is and how it can benefit marketers.

Designers and engineers in Greece and southeastern Europe who design buildings, draw plans for concrete and steel structures, or plan electrical, plumbing, or HVAC systems, have probably heard of 4M. A leader in the architectural CAD industry, 4M has rapidly penetrated the Building Information Management (BIM) market by taking advantage of the IntelliCAD customizable CAD platform.

Action Equipment & Scaffolding is a family-owned business that has served the Phoenix area for more than 45 years. After years of renting scaffolding, they recently began to manufacture their own construction scaffolding.

Ever since the federal government passed Sarbanes Oxley in 2002 there has been a tide rising within Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Records Information Management (RIM): The need to store and archive more data and ensure rapid access to it, in order to navigate litigation demands and prepare for a potential electronic document discovery process.

More than a century old, Clark Construction Group, LLC, is one of the United States’ more experienced
construction service providers, with more than $4 billion in annual revenue and projects throughout the country. The Bethesda, Md., firm supports its projects with teams of highly trained construction
professionals and specialists to ensure that partnering, estimating, purchasing, scheduling, engineering, safety and community relations go smoothly throughout the construction process to produce quality, award-winning projects.

Ziatek offers a complimentary demo program of our software for you to download and review. The demo program contains all the features of the real program, without the ability to connect to a digitizer. Instead, it uses a demo file. Otherwise, the demo works much like the live software. You can see area/length/count takeoffs, save the screen image or print it out, and send takeoff quantities directly to Lotus, Excel or any other Windows program.

Morefield Communications designs, installs, and services communication technologies
in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Since 1945, they've partnered with business and
community organizations to create effective solutions that last. They approach their
client’s communications needs as a partner, not a vendor. Through effective partnering,
Morefield offers solutions and relationships that last.

“If it weren’t for the all the improved processes we received through WennSoft, I’m
not sure we would have been able to weather the economic downturn. We’re able to
get more work accomplished with fewer people because our processes are more
efficient.”

The payment process in the construction industry follows a labyrinth-like, yet predictable path each month, from the initiation of the draw to its final resolution. The volume of invoices involved and the manual nature of the entire process almost inevitably results in frustration for both general contractor (GC) and subcontractor that can strain even the most amicable business relationships.

The Penketh project identifies the drainage network needs for the Penketh catchment in the North West of England. By using InfoWorks CS 2D, innovative modelling techniques and working with the various stakeholders in the area, United Utilities (UU) has proposed integrated and sustainable solutions to property flooding.

Properties at risk of flooding from sewers due to hydraulic overload are recorded on a water company’s DG5 register and this is based on flooding events that have actually occurred. This approach does not identify the total risk as demonstrated by the fact that new properties come on to the register each year or that a property maybe potentially at a greater risk of flooding than currently indicated on the DG5 registers.

Although Al had been in the construction business for half a lifetime, he felt that his project management system was detached. "Before we purchased ConstructionSuite we were using a combination of Microsoft Outlook, Project, and QuickBooks. Everything was disconnected."

"ConstructionOffice is probably the best single investment we've made in the last year, and that's the truth. It's been worth every penny and more, bringing new growth, more confidence, and better project management to our company."

Blackwalnut is a full-service fabrication company that specializes in scenic environments for the broadcast industry. In other words, they build TV sets—TV sets for ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, CNBC, The Game Show Network, Comedy Central, and more.

The GRAMMY Celebration is the largest awards show celebration in the entertainment industry. With 6,000 guests, this year’s celebration covers 98,000 square feet of party space—the size of three football fields. It took four months to plan, but planners only had four hours to transform Hall A of the Los Angeles Convention Center from the pre-telecast show into the post-telecast party.

Internationally-acclaimed landscape architecture firm PWP Landscape Architecture (PWP) has a reputation for challenging the traditional concepts of design in its work. And, when it comes to designing its signature landscapes, the firm finds using AutoCAD to be a challenge.

The Miami Monument Competition sought visionary designs for a marker that would celebrate the city of Miami and distinguish its skyline from that of other great cities in the world. The structure had to encourage civic involvement, as well as strengthen the urban fabric of the city by creating an iconic structure—a monument— to the pioneering and evolving nature of Miami.

The existing model for video conferencing does not work effectively. Studies show that up to 90% of communication in a videoconferencing can be achieved in an audio conference. This is because existing models of videoconferencing do not take into account the interpersonal dynamics that spontaneously occur in a face-to-face conference.

Bob Molkenthin, a.k.a. “Dr. Bob”, began teaching table drafting in New Jersey’s Lacey
Township School District 32 years ago. As technology progressed, computers started
entering the classroom.
With the help of a grant in the late 1980s, Dr. Bob was able to purchase his fi rst two
computers and a plotter.

J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. is a diversified general, highway and marine contractor headquartered in La Crosse, WI. The company also operates Brennan Marine, Inc., which it describes as a harbor operations and barging transportation concern. Founded in 1919 by James F. Brennan, the company offers an array of services to government agencies and municipalities as well as utility, railroad, remediation, harbor, marine pulp and paper, mining, industrial, commercial, healthcare and hospitality markets.

For almost 25 years, Graphic Presentation Systems has been designing, engineering and fabricating trade show exhibits. Firm principal Kevin Keizer and his team of designers, engineers and fabricators produce trade show exhibits for clients in a variety of industries--from pharmaceutical and financial to biotech and high-tech. Big name clients include AD P, Bank One, JP Morgan, MacNeil, and Mitsubishi.

"In our business," states Rose Garms, co-owner and controller of Active Construction, "we manage our people, their time, and our equipment. That's how we stay profitable." A utility and site-prep contractor in Gig Harbor, Washington for more than 40 years, Active attributes their continued profitability to better communication between accounting and operations through the use of technology.

Innovative. Ingenious. And indebted to VectorWorks Architect. That’s what describes 5+1 architetti associati, of Genoa, Italy, and their award-winning entry for The Venice Biennale’s international competition to design the “New Palazzo del Cinema and Surrounding Areas.” The new building’s primary function will be to house the Venice International Film Festival headquarters. However, it will also serve the communities of Venice and the Lido, as well as provide a model on which to base the refurbishment of the surrounding area.

From scale models of the solar system to ancient astronomical instruments to interactive adventures, the Adler provides a passageway for visitors to explore the universe. And VectorWorks Designer gives Ramos the tools to make it all happen—from prototyping exhibits with conceptual geometry to visualizing ideas with exact colors and textures for executive approval to creating exhibit construction documents for exhibit fabrication.

The Shoe Lounge is the latest retail establishment to open on Walnut Street in Philadelphia’s Center City, the city’s high-fashion row. The hip space houses some of today’s hottest designer shoe labels, including Prada, Miu Miu, Marni, and Christian Louboutin, and showcases the work of New York artist Doze Green (www.dozegreen.com). To create the high-end retail space, New York City-based interior design firm Danielé Perna Designs (www.danielepernadesigns.com) used VectorWorks.

It sounds simple. Design a courtyard for a college campus building. Since the building was the Keene State Science Center, the challenge for Dirtworks, PC™, was to design an outdoor gathering space that was educational—a living classroom. So the New York-based landscape architecture firm set out to create a design that captures the essential character of the New Hampshire landscape and distills it into an idealized snapshot of the state to help students learn about local botanical life and geological formations.

The Swiss Parliament Building, or the Bundeshaus, in Bern is undergoing its first extensive renovation since its inauguration in 1902. The project’s primary components are restoring the building to its original condition, renovating existing office space to accommodate more parliament officials, adding a new visitors’ entrance for the 100,000 tourists who visit the historic building each year, and modernizing building systems.

GLY Construction, Inc., is a general contracting firm that manages large commercial construction projects (some in excess of half a billion dollars) for a number of prestigious Pacific Northwest clients. Currently, GLY has deployed Bluebeam PDF Revu CAD Edition to 100 users. By switching to Bluebeam, the firm has saved tens of thousands of dollars. Additionally, GLY has used Bluebeam in conjunction with Microsoft SharePoint to implement a paperless RFI process and improve project communication.

he following case study reviews the punch and back check processes used on the recently completed Terranea Resort. This $500 million, 582-room resort sits on 102 acres of oceanfront property in Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA.

The rich, warm tones of solid mahogany for the most elegant dining rooms and bedrooms.Custom-made pieces that range from 18th century to transitional styling. Heirloom-quality manufacturing, so furniture is treasured from one generation to the next. These are all
reasons that loyal customers ask for Craftique furniture by name, a proud family-owned tradition since 1945.

“We are interested in complex architectural forms, which turn out to be difficult to build as a computer model. T-Splines made it possible to quickly create such a single accurate, smooth and continuous surface model.”

Even as the pace of technology continues to grow at a rapid speed, many construction companies today are still operating on non-integrated information enterprise systems that are 10, 15, or even 20 years old. And while the cost and time implications involved in a major technological overhaul are significant adoption barriers, research shows that productivity problems associated with aging systems pose even greater risks for companies.

F or any organization, the decision to overhaul an enterprise technology system involves significant consideration, research, and investment. Company-wide change and the challenges that follow can be a big risk. What’s more, businesses may feel the burden of uncertain economic times, and opt to put their technology plans on hold until the storm passes. Still others may find it difficult to quantify the differences a technological change can make, and may instead focus on areas of business with more clear-cut payoffs.

The real power to your projects is not within jackhammers or generators; it's in your business management tool, which simplifies and speeds up the way you work. A growing number of savvy underground and overhead utility contractors are turning to integrated business management software to help automate estimating, job cost accounting, and project management. Utility Products .

Highly professional Architectural BIM design and Bills of Quantities software to use for free? Free UPP is here. A new way to distribute professional software for the Engineering and Architectural industries.
Free UPP (Free Use Pay Print) is born: a revolutionary way to distribute professional Architectural, Engineering and Bill of Quantities/Estimating software. With Free UPP software, use, program updates, training and support are completely free. The customer pays only when needing to print (a very convenient cost for each A4 sheet), and with no expiry date. The first 500 prints are free.
The customer has a free license to use the full-featured version of the software for architectural BIM design and Bills of Quantities/Estimating. Programs with very advanced 2D/3D design features to produce floor plans, cross sections, elevation views, isometric views, perspective views, renderings, photo match simulations, bills of quantities, etc... Free UPP software solutions are complete and professional and can easily be compared to other software such as Revit, All Plan, ArchiCAD or VectorWorks.
With Free UPP software you can collaborate with anyone, because everyone can use the same software for free.
You can also install the software on as many computers as you like free of charge.
Free UPP is proposed by ACCA software, a company with over 200,000 program users and is one of the most important international manufacturers in the industry.
Free UPP is a new way of thinking of professional software for the Engineering and Architectural industries combining convenience, simplicity and professionalism in a revolutionary way.

Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture brings computer-aided planning and design of indoor and outdoor projects to your PC. The built-in project assistant guides your through the basic setup process and even inexperienced users will feel right at home with the thematically-structured user interface.
The program offers all common tools for blueprint creation with extensive 2D and 3D views. Rooms can be individually furnished using the integrated object catalogue. It offers a myriad of objects from doors, windows, balconies and car ports to sanitary and electrical appliances.
Finished buildings are instantly explorable through virtual tours. The integrated light and shadow simulation gives an even more realistic picture and also takes modern photovoltaic elements into account.
If you're planning on building your own house or redecorating your garden, Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 5 is the ideal tool for you.

Maeg Costruzioni Sp chose GRAITEC Advance Workshop because of its capabilities as a tailor made solution for the Steel Fabrication industry. This purpose-built MIS is designed to give steel fabricators complete control over every stage of production.

Estalo CAD allows the creation and modification of project drawings on your smartphone/handheld (PDA) device. Later those projects can be transferred and altered in a desktop computer. Polylines, rectangles, ellipses, layers, texts and notes are just some of the entities read by the system. It is compatible with DXF/DWG/CAD files and allows the functionality of a full fledged CAD system with the mobility of a smartphone/handheld (PDA).

Because they work at the front end of the development process, architects are bellwethers of the building industry, signaling changing trends in design, the real estate market and the economy. These days, they're giving mixed signals.

Project profit analysis management is a process of periodically reviewing, usually weekly, the changes in each project’s profit margin. Knowing how much and why the profit margins change allows management to preview the financial finish line throughout the project. It gives management a
heads up and allows more time to address
problems at earlier construction stages.This
process usually results in improved profits.

To maximize project profits, managers need to have knowledge of jobsite activities that may cause a project to be late or cost more than planned. This information needs to be passed on in a timely way so managers can take corrective
action as soon as possible. The more time that passes before corrective action is taken, the more likely a project will be late and the profit margin eroded.

Protecting critical, geographically dispersed infrastructure requires solutions that provide a common operating picture for decision-makers for all locations, at all times, throughout a security event. An effective security solution must address security detection, assessment, and response requirements in a way that maximizes the use of available information and manpower, minimizes the response to false positives, and integrates data from multiple locations and agencies. By integrating multiple tools into a single workspace and automating as much of the security process as possible, decision makers will be able to more rapidly and cost-effectively protect our infrastructure.

Prineville Public Works is making significant improvements to the city's water and sewer infrastructure to better understand fluctuations in the city's water supply and the amount of strain experienced by sewage pipes.

This avi shows how you can create transition profiles by editing each design sections, with options to set grade from previous station or set grade between 2 codes or interactivly move the section or point.

BonZai 3D is a new 3D modeler developed to fill in the demand for a quick, easy, simple but, most importantly, geometrically robust approach to 3D. A response to those who wish to express their thoughts graphically in 3D, on the fly, without too much hassle, and then be able to advance to the next level of detailed solid modeling, 3D printing and production.
The BonZai tools have resulted from experiences, experiments, research, and user input of the past 15 years. Its goal is to support the conceptual and sketching stages of design with utmost ease, but also the production of accurate and robust models that can be used for construction drawings, can be smoothly rendered, animated, and fabricated (i.e. printed in 3D). BonZai 3D includes all of this and more at an affordable price.

To succeed in today’s competitive marketplace, construction business owners need end-to-end visibility to see how jobs perform from start to finish, as well as be able to track costs on a line-item basis for tight control and oversight. Critical to that end is efficient communication and information access among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management teams.

Faced with the problems of constantly juggling information from a large number of incompatible systems and databases, John Tomlinson decided to streamline Northamptonshire County Council's property management by taking on a single integrated solution that would address their current and future needs.

ARCHIBUS has made significant contributions to Alegent Health, the Omaha, Nebraska-based healthcare provider serving eastern Nebraska and western Iowa , since its adoption over seven years ago by the healthcare provider’s Building Operations Department.

Even though aSa’s main headquarters are 15 hours and half of the globe away, Shane Greenaway of Down Under Steel gets local support when he calls aSa. “It’s really nice having someone in the country. Steven has been really helpful,” says Shane, referring to aSa’s new office in Brisbane and its director Steven Selig.

GemStar Group experiences increased productivity and rapid ROI using On-Screen Takeoff®. Large projects in the digital age.

GemStar Group, Inc., a world leader in project management, supply and installation of natural stone finishes, is known for providing quality finishes at competitive prices in a professional manner on time and on budget. GemStar acts in the market both through directly controlled projects and by means of joint-venture
agreements with other companies to provide clients with the most advanced technologies in the various phases of project design and realization.

R & R Contracting, a railroad contractor with locations in North Dakota, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Minnesota, completes over 200 jobs per year—which include railroad construction, design, maintenance and repair, as well as rail removal, re-railing and other emergency jobs. When the company realized that they needed a better way to track the progress being made at their jobsites, they turned to BID2WIN Software.

Their projects include many municipal sites in and around Costa Mesa, California. These including public works buildings, fi re stations, and pump stations. They have also provided
architectural services for civic centers and city parks.

Based in New Haven , Connecticut and licensed in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland, Svigals + Partners has
served over 200 clients throughout New England. With a staff of 25, Svigals + Partners provides personalized service and attention to every project.

The implementation and the use of Plant-4D within the Litwin design office was very quick. The operators were very impressed with the software's ease of use and the speed to generate 3D models. These models are immediately used by the commercial department as a pre-sale presentation. Today, the technical departments of Litwin can produce small "helicopter view" animations of the 3D model. After the signing of the contract, the 3D model is used for more detailed design. The project can be completed with the isometrics generating maximum time savings, as the vice-president, Eric Lecesne, explained.

Arnold Laver Timber World processes 500,000
purchase orders each year from 28,000
customers. Like most suppliers in the
construction sector, Arnold Laver needs to
reduce the proportion of poor quality purchase
orders (PO’s) it receives as well as being able to meet ‘Next Day’ and ‘Just in Time’ delivery
requirements. Poor quality or inaccurate PO’s
introduce a real risk that Arnold Laver might
deliver the wrong products or materials.

Harris Electric knows a thing or two about good service. After more than 16 years in the electrical contracting business, it has learned how to keep an ever-growing list of
commercial and residential customers happy. Still, a few years back this full service electrical contractor knew it had
to come up with a more efficient way of running its business if it was going to remain competitive in the Kansas City metro area.

One of the most important factors for any Digital Asset Management Solution is how quickly and with what degree of accuracy users are able to find media that matches their needs. To achieve this, assets should be catalogued in a predictable and conventional manner, reflective of the business sector and culture of the organisation.

Many discussions regarding Digital Asset Management systems are concerned with the storage and retrieval of brand assets. An area that is growing in significance, however, is the use of digital asset management to originate new, brand compliant collateral.

Carlson Software, a leading provider of office and mobile solutions for land surveying, civil engineering, mining and construction markets, joined the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) in 2007 to add IntelliCAD as a robust, DWG-compatible CAD platform for its software application suite. Now Carlson customers have a choice between two CAD engines when purchasing Carlson software.

Retailer Best Buy Inc. didn’t have a way to keep up with more than 70 construction and remodeling projects each year. Using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to track project costs wasn’t accurate enough and provided too little deta

Brothers Concrete began using Sage Timberline Office Estimating about five years ago, replacing a complex spreadsheet-based system. Accounting and project management tasks were tackled in two separate unrelated programs. “We ended up with three systems, one for estimating, one for accounting, and another for project management,” recalls Guy Goddard, vice president and chief financial officer for Brothers Concrete.

Cemstone likes to say it's a company that "ROCs"-an acronym using the first letters of reliable, on-time, and consistent. Since 1927, when sand was still dug by hand and sold by the bushel, Cemstone has supplied concrete and other constructions materials to the Midwest under management of the Becken family.

In Kandahar, Afghanistan, a Contrack engineer pauses while constructing an airfield runway. He remembers that corporate headquarters in Virginia doesn't have his wife's new cell phone number. How would they contact her in case of an accident? It's a worrisome thought, given that his job takes him to areas studded with unexploded ordnance.

Atlantic United Construction® has saved $25,000 per year in administrative costs by implementing Microsoft® Dynamics SL (formerly Solomon). The integrated business software automates many previouslymanual tasks, and seamlessly integrates project and contract management with financial accounting. This saves considerable data entry time and reduces the potential for errors. The flexibility of the billing module in the new software means that invoices can now be
generated automatically in each client’s desired format rather than by hand as in the past.

ToolBoxWhat if you could manage your software like you managed your fleet?You could lease applications, minimizing long-term commitments and large IT investments. You’d always have the most current version, and you could outsource maintenance, upgrades, and some infrastructure.

In just two short years operating Tri Vista USA, Michael Sauri went from local contractor to national feature on HGTV's renovation series Curb Appeal. As a UDA customer since 2005, Michael has grown from the ConstructionOffice system in 2005 to the new UDA ConstructionSuite released earlier this year.

"ConstructionOffice gives me the ability to use the estimate to generate a schedule, and then go from the schedule to print out a weekly task list that has the notes to indicate things like materials, resources, and so forth that are necessary for the job and email it to my project supervisor on Sunday night to let him take a look at it, then I'm able to take it to work on Monday morning. It's just inconceivable how fast and easy it makes the whole project management process."

X360 Ftp Client ActiveX Control helps application developers and programmers create applications with a simple method of implementing FTP client capabilities. It allows you to access FTP functions with a single line of code.

The Hartnetts started using VectorWorks to design retail and display space for their commercial clients, which include shoe stores, clothing boutiques and restaurants. As they became more proficient with VectorWorks, they soon realized the benefits of the easy-to-learn software went beyond laying out spaces and “making things fit.”

Look into saving thousands of dollars for practically the same software supporting DWG, AutoLISP, 3D Surfaces and solids, including opportunities to include add-ons for Civil Survey, Plumbing/HVAC, Electrical and Architectural design, CNC CAM, linking with Microsoft Office, and others. All offered as low cost productivity boosters to get the job done...

The decision to seek new construction accounting software, particularly for contractors moving up from QuickBooks or Peachtree, is generally driven by the complexity of operations. As your company grows, you require additional functionality with more detailed reporting, particularly in the areas of project management and job costing. This functionality and reporting is vital for analyzing data and making better decisions.

C.S. McCrossan Inc., a diversified heavy highway contractor with locations in New Mexico, Arizona and Minnesota, performs over one hundred million dollars in airport, structural and heavy highway work every year. With a workload of this volume, it is no surprise that C.S. McCrossan has a large number of estimators. Before purchasing BID2WIN Estimating & Bidding in 1999, C.S. McCrossan was using spreadsheets for estimating and bidding, and a lot of estimators were doing bids by hand. The company knew that a standardized system was needed to get everyone on the same page.

As an ISO 9000 registered company, BA Blacktop believes that continual improvement is the key to providing superior quality products and services. This belief is applied to every aspect of their business, and the estimating department is no exception. However, estimators at BA Blacktop were finding it difficult to continuously improve their estimating and bidding process while using spreadsheets. “The spreadsheets were too time-consuming and any changes that needed to be made were very cumbersome,” says estimator Martin Logan-Hill. The company needed a solution to increase the speed, accuracy and ultimately the quality of their bids.

Daniel DiCarlo, President and founder of Ohio-based civil construction company Equipt, Inc., knows firsthand the importance of a streamlined estimating and bidding process. As a small company, Equipt Inc.’s profitability is dependent on its estimators’ ability to get consistent and accurate bids out the door in the same timeframe as its larger competitors. In today’s increasingly competitive bidding environment, this would pose a challenge to any small company—and seem virtually impossible for one with only three estimators. However, Equipt Inc. has no problem keeping up with BID2WIN Estimating & Bidding on their side.

Processing and archiving massive volumes of paper mail was a major challenge for ARAG. In the past, a 50-person sorting team classified and distributed incoming mail throughout their Duesseldorf corporate offices, but the growing complexity and expense of physical processing and archiving led them to adopt an electronic system in 1995.

Contemporary commercial piping analysis programs deal differently with the problem of apparent lift-off of an operating pipe at a rod hanger or a one-way vertical support, such as a pipe on a support rack. A few programs provide error messages; others show a vertical movement with a possible increase in sustained (weight) stress (see NOTE below for CAEPIPE). A proper understanding of the standard piping design practice is the key to correct interpretation of these results from different programs. Such standard piping design practice was generally understood when the sustained and flexibility analysis rules were introduced in the 1955 Edition of the ASME B31 Code for Pressure Pipin

The AIA 2009 National Convention and Expo wrapped up in San Francisco earlier this month, and it was hardly surprising that attendance seemed noticeably down this year, given the current economic climate, both in the US and world-wide. The week of the convention also unfortunately coincided with the peak of the swine flu scare, which may have contributed to keeping some of the registered attendees away

When former Pottery Barn product designer Pete Ward took off for Hawaii to design high-end concept homes, he took VectorWorks Architect and RenderWorks with him. A background in industrial design exposed him to several 3D software programs. But none really offered him the capabilities to achieve what he wanted in much detail.

The Amazon Rainforest covers 1.2 billion acres of land in the Amazon Basin of South America, representing more than half the world’s remaining rainforests. About the size of the continental United States, it is the largest and most species-rich tropical rainforest region in the world. But it is also one of the most endangered.

When some of the UK’s top interior design and landscaping firms need new talent, they turn to KLC School of Design. KLC is located in the heart of the design industry close to Kew Gardens and right next to the prestigious Chelsea Harbour Design Centre—which is the largest design and decorating center of its type in Europe, housing more than 70 showrooms and 120 brands. KLC is the only school of design in the UK to be accredited by both the BAC (British Accreditation Council) and the ODLQC (Open & Distance Learning Quality Council).

Brett Guarrero is a Principal of Telluride eGroup, a design and engineering firm specializing in alternative energy solutions for buildings. Brett was in Phoenix for the 2009 Greenbuild Conference & Expo when he learned of a problem back in the office. One of his projects, the installation of a geothermal heating system for a homeowner, required some last minute design changes.

Kehoe Myers is a Consulting Engineering firm in Toowoomba on the Darling Downs in Queensland. We have provided Civil, Structural and Hydraulic Engineering services to QLD and northern NSW since 1977. With a team of 19 staff, we assist clients to develop infrastructure and residential lifestyle, industrial and rural estates. We design industrial, commercial, residential, aged care and institutional building structures for Developers

Alex Popov & Associates is a well established and highly regarded architectural firm that provides residential and planning services both in Australia and overseas through a staff of fifteen talented design professionals. Alex Popov has been successful in a number of design competitions and the practice has received numerous awards from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects including several Wilkinson Awards, the Robin Boyd.

Liquid Compass, a national award-winning Streaming Media company, has been an innovator in assisting terrestrial radio stations with monetizing their online streaming content. Liquid Compass forged a new path in the industry by providing services on a variety of levels from streaming services to creating state-of-the-art customized media players.

As the name implies, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications try to encompass entire processes inside an enterprise. Casting such a wide net, however, means the software sometimes overlooks the finer details. Industrial manufacturer Morris & Associates discovered a low-cost secret to further customize its ERP, plus gain a handle on company documents.

Download a fully functional 30-day trial version of ArchiCAD offers straightforward pathway to experience the premier BIM design tool for architects.
Download a whole series of interactive training guides for an effortless learning experience

Convert all video files to AVCHD,psp,iPod,iPhone,flv,dvd,vcd,PS3...Total Video Converter is a complete solution for video conversion which supports reading,playing all kinds of video and audio formats and converting them to the popular video formats

Pennsylvania-based Amerimax Home Products, Inc. (Amerimax) manufactures all-weather, exterior building products, such as gutters, railings, and related accessories. To fabricate its products quickly and efficiently, the company designs its own ergonomic, safe, and fast production machinery. Electrical controls and automated systems are at the heart of these machines.

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. is a Fortune 1000 company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Driven by the mission, Value Every Time, the company’s brands, Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental, serve value-conscious travelers in approximately 70 countries. The company has over 1,475 corporate and franchised locations worldwide, including over 836 in the United States and Canada, and operates in virtually all of the top U.S. and Canadian airport markets. To ommunicate effectively with its corporate customers
and win new deals, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group relies on Sage SalesLogix.

The right plotter paper for your printer will be necessary as you may have specifications for those prints and you need something that will work in your printer effectively. The wrong size, the wrong thickness, or anything else wrong about this paper and you will waste prints as well as time and effort.

With a patient base of approximately 280,000 spanning 11 counties, Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) is the fourth largest medical center in Arkansas. The center’s staff of 150 physicians represent all major specialties, and JRMC offers teaching programs for medical students, residents and students in allied health fields. As a community-owned, not-for-profit health care provider, JRMC is dedicated to providing excellence in health care services in a cost effective way to fulfill the needs of its patients, physicians, employers, employees and the community.

Millennium Mold Design, Inc. (MMDI) has served the mold making and molding industries for over 10 years. These industries require highly specialized design work to produce the tooling required for manufacturing molded piece parts. MMDI's goal is to provide a cost-effective, quality-oriented solution to these specialized design problems.

The company engaged POSDATA to provide a plug-and-play solution. The end result called for the build-out of a store’s infrastructure at the POSDATA service facility. Upon completion it was palletized, and then shipped to the new store location with plug-and-play results.

A major utility company needed help managing their desktop computer “IMAC” (Install, Move, Adds and Changes) and Refresh (upgrading with a new computer) programs. POSDATA partnered with the utility company’s IT service provider to supply the warehousing and computer configuration required.

It wasn’t nature that created straight lines in building – it was the limitations of technology. But with tailor-made CAD/CAM developments from Alphacam, Bolefloor curved flooring meets the true definition of unique. Each floorboard is
as individual as the tree it came from, meaning no two floors from Bolefloor are alike.

Bautagebuch 2013 is a program to create and manage construction logs. You are able to create plenty construction project logs. Each of them is able to contain plenty of reports (for every day for instance).

Nexo it is a capable, efficient, solid program equipped with plenty of additional (i.e. personalization, first name analysis, data matching and much more) to analyze, maintain and optimize your address data pool.

A First in Offshore Airport Infrastructure Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. (NSENGI), a unit of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. of Tokyo, Japan, participated in the 15-company joint venture (JV) that designed and built Tokyo International Airport’s new D Runway. Located in the Bay of Tokyo, the USD 6 billion offshore runway is comprised of a 1,100-meter pier section and a 2,020-meter reclaimed section. NSENGI completed detailed design of the jacket-supported pier structure in just 18 months. This is the first application of a jacket structure for an offshore airport runway, and it could not have been designed in this timeframe without the use of Bentley’s SACS software to perform fatigue analysis of the structure under the most severe of conditions. The pier’s 100-year service life is 70-80 years longer than the standard for offshore structures.

Move a vertical PVI. SPLASH® is used to move a vertical PVI in the profile panel. The catch basins are dynamically attached to the vertical curve design. When the road vertical design changes, Ripple-Thru automatically adjusts the rims of the catch basins, the grade text on the vertical curves, etc.

The economic downturn has been unforgiving, and manufacturing companies are looking for ways to contain costs and improve aftermarket revenue. Visual CRM enables manufacturing companies to increase product and parts sales while improving customer service efficiency.

Unlocking data produced during design & manufacturing in any format, from any repository, in a secure fashion, helps manufacturing companies increase aftermarket parts sales, and improve customer service and loyalty while reducing repair costs.

In early 2007, Multicare Health System’s Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH) in Puyallup, Washington, initiated a major $400-million expansion. When complete, this 357,000-square-foot project will
transform the full-service community hospital into an ultramodern regional healthcare center, providing advanced medical services and personalized care in a warm, supportive environment. Encompassing an area equal to six city blocks, the GSH expansion is highly complex, involving a sloping site, multiple overlapping design phases, and an
ambitious LEED Silver sustainable design goal.

The people behind CAD Manufacturing Systems, Inc. (CMS) have been in the CAD software industry for over three decades. Originally developing and selling the proprietary ProCADD software package, CMS now markets and sells CMS IntelliCAD, which is based on the IntelliCAD customizable CAD engine technology. And they believe in what they sell — they use CMS IntelliCAD
internally for crane design and other projects.

ELXIS S.A., founded in 1993, works on large and complex projects, offering
integrated consulting engineering services, design, supervision, project management, and technical assistance. Specializing in a wide range of mechanical engineering services, ELXI has carried out many large and complex projects in hydraulics, industrial, transportation, energy, and
electromechanical building design. Example projects include the Athens Suburb Railway, Peloponnesian Stadium, State General Archives Building, Athens
Press Village, Office Towers, and many others.

Streamline the repair proccess using this professional tool. It was specifically designed to support the computer service and repair businesses in achieving a fast, professional and accurate service delivered to their customers

Founded in 1984 by Edward Cruz, EE Cruz and Company is a general contractor specializing in heavy construction projects in the New York/New Jersey Metro Area.
Based in Holmdel, NJ, the company has successfully completed over one billion dollars of infrastructure improvements throughout the region — including highways, bridges, pipelines and foundations. The company employs more than 250 skilled trades workers, managers and support staff. EE Cruz is one of the top 15 contractors in the New York area, according to Crain’s New York Business magazine.

WIMCO Corporation, a Washington, North Carolina-based general contractor, has built a reputation as an industry leader in the utilization of computer technology. WIMCO began as a scrap metal business in 1950 and grew into a multiple-award winning general contractor with a strong presence in North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

Founded in 1984 by Edward Cruz, EE Cruz and Company is a general contractor specializing in heavy construction projects in the New York/New Jersey Metro Area. Based in Holmdel, NJ, the company has successfully completed over one billion dollars of infrastructure improvements throughout the region — including highways, bridges, pipelines and foundations. The company employs more than 250 skilled trades workers, managers and support staff. EE Cruz is one of the top 15 contractors in the New York area, according to Crain’s New York Business magazine.

Design Tec is an award winning interior design and merchandising firm based in
Newport Beach, California. Comprised of highly experienced professionals with diverse
backgrounds in design and marketing, they have earned a reputation of excellence and
attention to detail throughout the building industry.

With more than 20 years of industry experience and a Parnelli Award nomination for his work on this tour and the recent Garbage tour, lighting designer Butch Allen knows a thing or two about concert lighting. His client list includes Black Sabbath, BowWow, Garbage, Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzfest, Def Leppard, Hole, Motley Crue, Seal and Kelly Clarkson.

For a small media integration company with a large range of projects worldwide, the built-in Adobe® PDF import and export support VectorWorks offers has initiated a whole new way of working. Meeting with clients no longer involves hours of travel and face time. Review and approval processes have been drastically shortened. Cross-platform issues when working with colleagues, contractors, and sub-contractors just don’t exist anymore. Presentation materials have taken on a life of their own.

In 2001, the college initiated a comprehensive renovation program to renovate five historic residence halls, including three of the college’s original buildings—known as College Row, to accommodate future generations of students. The scope of the projects included approximately 120,000 square feet of residential space housing 300 students. The college wanted to preserve the historic character of the five buildings, yet provide the functionality and modern conveniences of new construction.

ngus Cockburn is a Quantity Surveyor with over 35 years experience. A few weeks after switching to Bluebeam PDF Revu for electronic takeoffs, he received an urgent call from a flooring contractor. The contractor wanted Angus to help him bid on a four-floor, 1,500 room London hospital. He needed Angus to provide measurements for 10 different floor coverings. The only hitch - the bid deadline was three days away.

World’s premier measurement company
As the world leader in test and measurement systems in electronics and bio-analytic instruments, Agilent Technologies serves a wide range of industries, including consumer electronics, medical, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

Only 50 years after its invention, it is hard to imagine life without the integrated circuit (IC). As the heart - or the brain - of all computers, ICs power the world’s most complex systems in communications, manufacturing, and transportation. A significant and growing part of this market is the flip-chip.

Moving your manufacturing to ISO 9000 certification can open doors to foreign markets, but in the process it can also open the floodgates of paperwork. Certification can multiply the number of documents needed for each small step in product development. International standards spread instructions throughout your workflow on everything from scientific and engineering guidelines to what to print on safety labels.

IES Consulting was employed by Warren
Overton, the Green Star Accredited
Professional for the project, to optimise
through dynamic thermal modelling the
energy use and quality of the indoor
environment, as well as undertake the
analyses required for the related Green
Star credit submissions.

Water loss is a very complex issue, and one-off investments in fixing leaks and replacing meters are not enough; being reactive
(when a leak is reported) is much less efficient than being proactive (identifying hidden leaks, optimizing repair functions and upgrading
distribution infrastructure before its useful life ends), where all the components of a water loss program are coordinated
to reduce overall losses.

Bring your idea to market faster with Shark™ FX v7, the new standard with precision 3D digital prototyping. Explore new product concepts with unprecedented ease and precisely share data with manufacturing processes. Packing more than 140 new features into this premier precision modeling application, Shark™ FX v7 runs on both the Windows and MAC platform.
New features include The Gripper™, an intuitive interface to move, rotate, and scale objects in 3D. Users easily access pen, text, and dimension attributes via the Inspector and can create user defined tool sets with the Custom Pallette.
New 3D modeling and photo-rendering capabilities include Edge Treatments for creating ribs and lips, 17 new Sketch rendering options, and HDRI support for outputting images.
In its role as a prototyping tool, users appreciate the wide compatibility with other tools and new v7 continues to deliver with support for CATIA V5, Inventor 2010, VDA-FS, updated AutoCAD 2010, SketchUp V7, and Pro/E.

Bring your idea to market faster with Shark™ FX v7, the new standard with precision 3D digital prototyping. Explore new product concepts with unprecedented ease and precisely share data with manufacturing processes. Packing more than 140 new features into this premier precision modeling application, Shark™ FX v7 runs on both the Windows and MAC platform.
New features include The Gripper™, an intuitive interface to move, rotate, and scale objects in 3D. Users easily access pen, text, and dimension attributes via the Inspector and can create user defined tool sets with the Custom Pallette.
New 3D modeling and photo-rendering capabilities include Edge Treatments for creating ribs and lips, 17 new Sketch rendering options, and HDRI support for outputting images.
In its role as a prototyping tool, users appreciate the wide compatibility with other tools and new v7 continues to deliver with support for CATIA V5, Inventor 2010, VDA-FS, updated AutoCAD 2010, SketchUp V7, and Pro/E.

The STA held its fi rst ever Technology Fair at the Terrace on the park on April 22. An excitement was in the air as the vendors busily set up their booths anticipating business opportunities from the attendees coming to the event.

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Catawba County is an innovative jurisdiction that regards technology as a powerful tool for improving service. In the mid-90s, Catawba County Manager Tom Lundy and the County commissioners decided to completely revamp the County’s technology instead of simply upgrading existing systems for Y2K. As Mick Berry, Director of Information Technology, explained, “The County leaders recognized that we had ‘maxed out’ the investments in our old systems. It didn’t make sense to spend more money on dead systems.”

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Guangzhou, China: May 23, 2012 – ZWSOFT, a leading supplier of 2D & 3D CAD/CAM solution to the AEC and MCAD industries, announced it has entered into a global agreement with Zamil Industrial to adopt ZWCAD across the company for its construction and manufacturing departments in Saudi Arabia headquarters, and branches in India and Vietnam. Zamil favors ZWCAD because of the outstanding product performance and customer support.
Zamil Industrial is a leading manufacturing and fabrication group that provides products, engineering systems and services for the construction industry. It was established in 1998 in Dammam, Saudi Arabia andsells its products in more than 90 countries with manufacturing facilities in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, India, Vietnam and Italy.
As Zamil was deciding on a CAD software for their company, their main concerns were price, support, compatibility and having a friendly user interface. Orbit, the authorized ZWCAD reseller in Saudi Arabia held many testing meetings and workshops for Zamil, to show how ZWCAD 2012 could meet their demands.
Due to Orbits strong desire to provide great support and the powerful features and functions of ZWCAD, Zamil not only decided to integrate the software in Saudi Arabia, but in their branches around the world as well. Zamil is continuing to purchase additional seats of ZWCAD given that they are unifying the solution in all units and sub branches and receiving positive end user feedback along with continuous improvements in the software.
Truman Du, CEO of ZWSOFT commented, “Zamil and Orbit are a great example of the partner relationship that we promote here at ZWSOFT. Outstanding product performance and support are the core values that we have been continuously delivering to our customers. I am happy to say that customers who purchase ZWCAD are often pleasantly surprised at the high level of support from ZWCAD’s partners and resellers around the world.”
About Orbit
Orbit Middle East, the authorized reseller of ZWCAD in Saudi Arabia, is a leading provider of best-of-breed solutions for businesses across the spectrum of the real estate and Architectural / Engineering / Construction (AEC) industries. It competes against time, past performance and rivals to efficiently deliver high quality solutions for project management, scheduling, estimating, construction accounting, property management, quantity takeoff, and CAD. http://www.cadsaudi.com/
About ZWSOFT
ZWSOFT’s a world-renowned CAD/CAM solutions provider for the AEC and MCAD industries, with over 180,000 clients in more than 80 countries. ZWSOFT's products, ZWCAD and ZW3D, have satisfied the needs of 2D&3D designers for over a decade. http://www.zwsoft.com
Contact Info
John Chow
ZWSOFT
zhouzehong@zwsoft.com
86-20-38289780 Ext 858
www.zwsoft.com

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